| Description |
x, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
In search of the volunteers -- America on the eve of Freedom Summer -- The biographical roots of activism -- Freedom high: the summer of '64 -- Taking stock: the immediate impact of Freedom Summer -- Applying the lessons of Mississippi -- The morning after: the seventies and beyond -- Let it shine |
| Summary |
In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staff "freedom schools" as part of the Freedom Summer campaign. By August, four were dead, 80 beaten, 1,000 arrested, and 67 churches, homes and businesses were burned or bombed. Less dramatically, but no less significantly, the volunteers encountered a "liberating" exposure to new lifestyles, new political ideologies, and a radically new perspective on America and on themselves. Doug McAdam offers the first book to gauge the impact of Freedom Summer on the volunteers and on the 1960s. Tracking down hundreds of the original applicants, and combining hard data with a wealth of personal recollections, he has produced a riveting portrait of the people, the events, and the era. McAdam discovered that the volunteers' encounters with white supremacist violence and their experiences with interracial relationships, communal living, and a more open sexuality led many of them to "climb aboard a political and cultural wave just as it was forming and beginning to wash forward." Many became activists in other movements and, most significantly, many of them have remained activists to this day.--From publisher description |
| Notes |
"First issued as ... paperback, 1990." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322) and index |
| Subject |
Mississippi Freedom Project
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| SUBJECT |
Mississippi Freedom Project. fast (OCoLC)fst00626884 |
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African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi
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Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi
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Nineteen sixties
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Nineteen sixties
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
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African Americans -- Suffrage.
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Civil rights workers.
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Race relations.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
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African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi.
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Civil rights -- Mississippi.
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| SUBJECT |
Mississippi -- Race relations
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Mississippi.
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Mississippi -- Race relations.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
88004707 |
| ISBN |
0195064720 |
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9780195064728 |
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0195043677 |
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9780195043679 |
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