Freedom Summer
The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
By Bruce Watson
By Bruce Watson
By Bruce Watson
By Bruce Watson
Category: History | Domestic Politics
Category: History | Domestic Politics
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Paperback $19.00
May 31, 2011 | ISBN 9780143119432
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My Soul Is Rested
The Race Beat
Some of My Best Friends Are Black
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader
Dallas, November 22, 1963
On the Laps of Gods
Island of Vice
The Nixon Defense
Praise
“Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude.”
–Washington Post
“Remarkable…a well-researched, vivid retelling of the 1964 civil rights crusade to put Mississippi’s 200,000 disenfranchised blacks on the voting rolls…[an] important book.”
–San Francisco Chronicle
“Elegantly written…A fascinating look at ordinary people at their best and worst…Riveting.”
–Richmond Times-Dispatch
“An amazing account of one pivotal summer in the history of civil rights…with a thriller’s pacing, the book forcefully describes the depravity and treachery behind the bombings, beatings and intimidation…and shows the physical and emotional costs of such a fight.”
–The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Engrossing”
–The Economist
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