Freedom summer : the savage season of 1964 that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
Bruce Watson (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2011
Penguin Books, New York, 2011