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Author Watson, Bruce, 1953-

Title Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy / Bruce Watson.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, [2010]
©2010

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  323.1196 WATSON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  323.1196 WAT    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  323.11 WAT    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.1196 WATSON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  323.1196 WAT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.1196 W33    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  323.1196 WATSON    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  976.2 WATSON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  323.1196 WATSON    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  323.1196 WA    Check Shelf
Description 369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-351) and index.
Contents "There is a moral wave building" -- "Not even past" -- Freedom street -- "The decisive battlefield for America" -- "It is sure enough changing" -- "The scars of the system" -- "Another so-called 'freedom day'" -- "Walk together, children" -- "The summer of our discontent" -- "Lay by time" -- "The stuff democracy is made of" -- "Give unto them beauty for ashes".
Summary Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi, while vividly portraying: the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state, the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life.
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780670021703
0670021709
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