Book Description
Personal impressions of conditions and events in the summer of 1964 told in selections from letters home by workers in the Civil Rights movement in that area.
Author : Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 1965
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Personal impressions of conditions and events in the summer of 1964 told in selections from letters home by workers in the Civil Rights movement in that area.
Author : Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN :
Expanded and revised edition of the 2002 Zephyr publication now including poetry from the Freedom Schools.
Author : Robert G. Evans
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Mississippi
ISBN : 9781578064861
"The words of these common soldiers fighting in one of the most notable units in the Army of Northern Virginia will fascinate both civil war buffs and historians.".
Author : Elizabeth Martinez
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938890024
Revised edition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer
Author : Rebecca Giles
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2020-12-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781734495041
Coastal Mississippi Alphabet celebrates the people, places, and events unique to the area of south Mississippi from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula teaching while it entertains. Rhymed verse, interesting facts, historical photographs, and beautifully detailed illustrations depict the rich offerings of this distinctive geographic region. A hidden picture activity and a glossary of terms enhance the learning in this delightfully educational book.
Author : Michael Edmonds
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870206796
Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach non-violence, and more than 60,000 black Mississippians risked everything to overturn a system that had brutally exploited them. In the 44 original documents in this anthology, you’ll read their letters, eavesdrop on their meetings, shudder at their suffering, and admire their courage. You’ll witness the final hours of three workers murdered on the project’s first day, hear testimony by black residents who bravely stood up to police torture and Klan firebombs, and watch the liberal establishment betray them. These vivid primary sources, collected by the Wisconsin Historical Society, provide both first-hand accounts of this astounding grassroots struggle as well as a broader understanding of the Civil Rights movement. The selected documents are among the 25,000 pages about the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project in the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The manuscripts were collected in the mid-1960s, at a time when few other institutions were interested in saving the stories of common people in McComb or Ruleville, Mississippi. Most have never been published before.
Author : Bruce Watson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1101190183
A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. 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. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent change in America. "Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post
Author : William Sturkey
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1626743991
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands of young African American students. Here they learned civics, politics, and history, curriculum that helped them instead of the degrading lessons supporting segregation and Jim Crow and sanctioned by White Citizen's Councils. Young people enhanced their self-esteem and gained a new outlook on the future. And at more than a dozen of these schools, students wrote, edited, printed and published their own newspapers. For more than five decades, the Mississippi Freedom Schools have served as powerful models of educational activism. Yet, little has been published that documents black Mississippi youths' responses to this profound experience.
Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 1461 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1496811593
Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Author : Rick Bowers
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426307365
The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history. Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials and interviewed surviving activists named in once-secret files, as well as the writings and oral histories of Mississippi civil rights leaders. Readers get first-hand accounts of how neighbors spied on neighbors, teachers spied on students, ministers spied on church-goers, and spies even spied on spies. The Spies of Mississippi will inspire readers with the stories of the brave citizens who overcame the forces of white supremacy to usher in a new era of hope and freedom—an age that has recently culminated in the election of Barack Obama