Mississippi Freedom SummerJohn F. McClymer Part of the American Stories series, this book tells the story of Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964. The summer of 1964 witnessed the most astounding successes of the Civil Rights movement as well as the beginning of the dissolution of the political and social coalition that made those successes possible. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Challenge to Senator Theodore Bilbo | 15 |
Beginnings | 24 |
Copyright | |
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African Americans Amite County Andrew Goodman arrested asked Barnett beat began BEGINNINGS CHAPTER Bilbo BLACKWELL Bob Moses boys campaign campus CHAIRMAN HANNAH Chaney church citizens civil rights workers COFO COMMISSIONER FREEMAN COMMISSIONER HESBURGH court courthouse crowd Delta Democratic Party election federal Freedom Schools Freedom Summer gonna Governor Hamer happened highway HOOD Ivanhoe Jackson jail James Chaney John Doar Katzenbach Kennedy killed knew live Lyceum marshals McComb Meredith Meridian Miss MISSISSIPPI SUMMER NAACP Negro Neshoba County nigger night nonviolence Ole Miss organize Oxford patrol Pike County police political President problem question register to vote registrar Robert Moses Ruleville Schwerner Senator sheriff shot SNCC South Southern Summer Project talk TAYLOR thing THOMAS told took truck try to register violence volunteers voter registration Walthall County WARREN week white supremacists