Freedom Summer: A Brief History with Documents

by Leslie Burl McLemore, Jeff Kolnick, John Dittmer

Book Overview

Discover what took place in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Through speeches, letters, reports, and activist training documents, Freedom Summer traces the story of a grassroots voter registration movement, challenging the Jim Crow system of segregation which wove its way through communities in Mississippi.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1457669331
• ISBN13: 9781457669330
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"