Description: In 1964, Mississippi civil rights groups banded together to fight Jim Crow laws in a state where only 6.4 percent of eligible black voters were registered.
Testing a bold new strategy, they recruited students from across the United States. That summer these young volunteers defied segregation by living with local black hosts, opening Freedom Schools to educate disenfranchised adults and their children, and canvassing door-to-door to register voters.
Everyone involved knew there would be risks but were nonetheless shocked when three civil rights workers disappeared and were soon presumed murdered. The organizers' worst fears were realized as volunteers, local activists, and hosts faced terror on a daily basis. Yet by the middle of August, incredible strides had been made in spite of the vicious intimidation. The summer unleashed an unstoppable wave of determination from black Mississippians to demand their rights and helped bring about a new political order in the American South.
Fifty years after this landmark civil rights project in Mississippi, an award-winning author offers a riveting account of events that stunned the nation. Includes over 75 photographs, drawings, original documents, a timeline, source notes, bibliography, maps, and an index.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: Children/juvenile
Book Title: Freedom Summer : the 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Holiday House, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists, People & Places / United States / African American, Social Topics / Prejudice & Racism, History / United States / 20th Century
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
Item Weight: 14.6 Oz
Author: Susan Goldman Rubin
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Picture Book
