Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century)
""Sue Sojourner's account of her mid-1960s work in Holmes County, Mississippi, is an important, engaging manuscript and one that speaks to a number of significant themes and topics in the scholarship of the civil rights movement." -- Emilye Crosby, Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement" --""Thunder of Freedom captures the struggles, the stories, and the spirit of the movement and the community organizing that brought about great change in that time and place. Now is the time to continue the march toward freedom until there is a level playing field for every child in Mississippi and in America."-- Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund" --"Finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards for memoir" --