num_pages: 246
description: Freedom Summer is a richly detailed account of a young white woman who participated in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's summer project in Mississippi in 1964. The text covers one intense summer from the basic training session in June to the Democratic Convention in August.
language: English
title: Freedom Summer
titlecomplete: Freedom Summer (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
genres: History, African American, Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 49
places: Mississippi
publisher: University of Virginia Press