We Are Not Afraid
Subtitle: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781560258643
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: United States - 20th Century; Social History; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights Of Blacks; History; History - U.S; History: World; United States - State & Local - General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; History / Social History; Discrimination & Racism; 1943-1964; 20th century; African Americans; Chaney, James Earl,; Civil rights; Civil rights workers; Mississippi
First sentence: ON THE EVENING of June 16, 1964, a gang of armed white men appeared at the Mount Zion Methodist Church in the all-black community of Longdale, in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi.
Description: It was one of the most haunting crimes in American history--the abduction and killing of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964. Seth Cagin and Philip Dray use extensive interviews, trial transcripts, and government files to weave a dramatic recounting of the civil rights cause for which these young men gave their lives.

This long awaited reissue of We Are Not Afraid includes a new introduction by the authors that reflects on the case's history, including the belated 2005 state prosecution of Edgar Ray Killen, one of the surviving Klan ringleaders.
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Table of contents: title: 1. June 21, 1964 --; title: Andy --; title: 3. The beloved community --; title: 4. Down freedom's main line --; title: 5. Library, Mississippi --; title: 6. J.E. --; title: 7. "Somebody have to die" --; title: 8. Goatee" --; title: 9. Rock cut road --; title: 10. A problem of law enforcement --; title: 11. The forty-four days --; title: 12. "Raise America up."