Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy - Hardcover

Watson, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670021709 ISBN 13: 9780670021703

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2010

Synopsis

"Analyzes a critical shift in American race relations during the summer of 1964, documenting how civil rights demonstrations by hundreds of college students triggered African-American voter registries and violent uprisings that also served as the basis of the film Mississippi Burning. By the Edgar-finalist author of Sacco and Vanzetti."

About this title

Review:

"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

About the Author:

Bruce Watson is an award-winning journalist whose articles have been published in Smithsonian, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, Yankee Magazine, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0670021709
• ISBN 13: 9780670021703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 369