Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965
<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->"Drawing on unmatched access both to participants in and primary documents about the student-led Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, James P. Marshall has produced an essential resource for students and scholars of this crucial place and time in U. S. History." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author ofLife Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1508-2008."James P. Marshall has provided a careful and detailed study of the extraordinary and brave efforts of students supporting civil rights to overcome racial oppression in Mississippi in the early 1960s. Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi is a must-read for anyone interested in protests against racial injustice that ultimately led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act." —William Julius Wilson, author ofMore than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City."James P. Marshall, scholar and participant, plows new ground in this superbly documented study of students and local people organizing for freedom while Mississippi burned. Building parallel protest parties demonstrating a desire to vote while opposing racism, they ignored personal danger. Marshall makes the case that young people in the 1960s, allied with older courageous stalwarts like Amzie Moore and Fannie Lou Hamer, changed American history." —Bob Zellner, author ofThe Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement."Marshall uses a rich collection of primary source material to chronicle in wonderful detail the gradual emergence and tactical evolution of the statewide movement in Mississippi. His untangling and sequencing of events, especially during Freedom Summer, provide the kind of clarity that civil rights scholars have long wished for and others will find refreshingly accessible." —Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author ofBloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt.