Letters from Mississippi“Letters from Mississippi gives us a deeply personal look at one of the Civil Rights Movement's key moments—and reminds us that change happens because regular people have decided they were willing to fight for it.”—Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund This expanded edition includes over forty pages of poetry by students in the Freedom Schools of 1964, adding the lively voices of local participants, mostly teenagers, to those of the volunteers from the North. The new edition also includes an additional dozen biographies, resulting in a wider resource for scholarship and for a general understanding of this critical moment in civil rights history. |
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User Review - ElizabethChapman - LibraryThingI found this in a used bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. It consists of letters written to friends and family by white student volunteers who traveled to Mississippi during the ... Read full review
Contents
At Home in a Black World | 41 |
That Long Walk to the Courthouse | 75 |
School for Freedom | 103 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Letters from Mississippi |
| Editor | Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Zephyr Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0939010925, 9780939010929 |
| Length | 376 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / 20th Century Poetry / American / African American Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies |
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