The Resource Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy, Bruce Watson
Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy, Bruce Watson
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The item Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy, Bruce Watson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Green Lake Public Library (Caestecker).
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- Summary
- Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi, while vividly portraying: the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state, the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 369 p., [8] p. of plates
- Contents
-
- "There is a moral wave building"
- "Not even past"
- Freedom street
- "The decisive battlefield for America"
- "It is sure enough changing"
- "The scars of the system"
- "Another so-called 'freedom day'"
- "Walk together, children"
- "The summer of our discontent"
- "Lay by time"
- "The stuff democracy is made of"
- "Give unto them beauty for ashes"
- Isbn
- 9780670021703
- Label
- Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
- Title
- Freedom summer
- Title remainder
- the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
- Statement of responsibility
- Bruce Watson
- Subject
-
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Mississippi -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi, while vividly portraying: the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state, the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Watson, Bruce
- Dewey number
- 323.1196/0730762
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.93.M6
- LC item number
- W285 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights workers
- Mississippi
- Label
- Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy, Bruce Watson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-351) and index
- Contents
- "There is a moral wave building" -- "Not even past" -- Freedom street -- "The decisive battlefield for America" -- "It is sure enough changing" -- "The scars of the system" -- "Another so-called 'freedom day'" -- "Walk together, children" -- "The summer of our discontent" -- "Lay by time" -- "The stuff democracy is made of" -- "Give unto them beauty for ashes"
- Control code
- ocn465330647
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 369 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670021703
- Lccn
- 2009047211
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)465330647
- Label
- Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy, Bruce Watson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-351) and index
- Contents
- "There is a moral wave building" -- "Not even past" -- Freedom street -- "The decisive battlefield for America" -- "It is sure enough changing" -- "The scars of the system" -- "Another so-called 'freedom day'" -- "Walk together, children" -- "The summer of our discontent" -- "Lay by time" -- "The stuff democracy is made of" -- "Give unto them beauty for ashes"
- Control code
- ocn465330647
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 369 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670021703
- Lccn
- 2009047211
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)465330647
Subject
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Mississippi -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
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