Alan Marshall's Freedom Summer explores the tensions within the project and the challenges faced by the staff and volunteers as they adjusted to life in Mississippi during the long, hot summer of 1964.
Their inability to reach those they have risked their lives to help causes them to lose confidence in themselves and in many of their fellow citizens.Alan Marshall's Freedom Summer explores the tensions within the project and the challenges ...
In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is black, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.
Chronicles the experiences of the volunteers who took part in the voter registration and education campaign in Mississippi in 1964, detailing the events of the fateful time, and how this later affected these young workers.
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.
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.
The text covers one intense summer from the basic training session in June to the Democratic Convention in August. It is a book where the author tells about her summer in the South, and how it affected her.
Document headnotes, a map and images, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enrich students’ understanding of Freedom Summer.
A historical account of the 1964 campaign to register African-American voters
That summer these young volunteers defied segregation by living with local black hosts, opening Freedom Schools to educate disenfranchised adults and their children, and canvassing door-to-door to register voters.