Freedom Summer
The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Published on 10. June 2010
384 pages
978-1-101-19018-0 (ISBN)
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A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.
In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent change in America.
"Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post
In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent change in America.
"Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post
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The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
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The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
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Bruce Watson is an award-winning journalist whose articles have been published in Smithsonian, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, Yankee Magazine, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- BOOK ONE - Crossroads
- Prologue
- CHAPTER ONE - "There Is a Moral Wave Building"
- CHAPTER TWO - "Not Even Past"
- CHAPTER THREE - Freedom Street
- CHAPTER FOUR - "The Decisive Battlefield for America"
- CHAPTER FIVE - "It Is Sure Enough Changing"
- CHAPTER SIX - "The Scars of the System"
- INTERLUDE - "Another So-Called 'Freedom Day'"
- BOOK TWO - A Bloody Peace Written in the Sky
- CHAPTER SEVEN - "WalkTogether, Children"
- CHAPTER EIGHT - "The Summer of Our Discontent"
- CHAPTER ONE - "Lay by Time"
- CHAPTER TEN - "The Stuff Democracy Is Made Of "
- CHAPTER ELEVEN - "Give unto Them Beauty for Ashes"
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
