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In the summertime of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Institutions, and reside in sharecroppers' shacks. But by enough time their first night time in their state had finished, three volunteers were inactive, black churches got used up, and America got a new classification of liberty. This remarkable section in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Getting rid of, is now the subject of Bruce Watson's thoughtful and riveting historical narrative. Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that helped bring such national characters as Martin Luther Ruler, Jr., and Pete Seeger to their state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous dark-colored citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their have difficulty for justice, as well as the white Mississippians who kill to safeguard a dying way of life. Few catalogs have provided this intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the civil rights movement.
