By Jim Dann,John Harris
ISBN-10: 1926824873
ISBN-13: 9781926824871
In June 1964, brave younger civil rights employees risked their lives within the face of violence, intimidation, unlawful arrests, and racism to sign in as many African American citizens as attainable in Mississippi, which had traditionally excluded so much blacks from balloting. With a firsthand account of the main points and considerate descriptions of key humans at the entrance lines, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles McLaurin, John Harris, Irene McGruder, and lots of extra, writer Jim Dann brings that old interval again to existence. He locations these 15 months in Mississippi—known as Freedom Summer—in the general background of the fight of African american citizens for freedom, equality, and democratic rights within the South, the rustic, and through the global. Fraught with classes drawn from these stories, Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers is a worthwhile contribution to figuring out and advancing civil rights struggles as well as being a desirable and engrossing tale of a pivotal second within the mid-20th-century United States.
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