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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy (Audio book)

English · Audio book

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In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom. This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Burning, is now the subject of Bruce Watson's thoughtful and riveting historical narrative. Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Pete Seeger to the state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, as well as the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. Few books have provided such an intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the civil rights movement.

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Bruce Watson is the author of Sacco and Vanzetti, a finalist for the Edgar Award, and Bread and Roses, a New York Public Library Book to Remember. His journalism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Smithsonian, and Reader's Digest. He lives in Massachusetts.

Product details

Authors Bruce Watson
Assisted by David Drummond (Reader / Narrator)
Publisher Tantor
 
Languages English
Product format CD-Audio (Playing time: 14h 37min)
Released 01.06.2010
 
EAN 9798200107230
ISBN 979-8-200-10723-0
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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