Freedom walk
Subtitle: Mississippi or bust
By: Mary Stanton.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights workers -- Crimes against -- Southern States -- Case studies.; Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Interviews.; Whites -- Southern States -- Interviews.; Southern States -- Race relations -- Case studies.; Alabama -- Race relations -- Case studies.; Mississippi -- Race relations -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.; Interviews.
Description: "In 1963, the streams of religious revival, racial strife, and cold-war politics were feeding the swelling river of social unrest in America. Marshaling massive forces, civil rights leaders were primed for a wide-scale attack on injustice in the South. By summer the conflict rose to great intensity as blacks and whites clashed in Birmingham.".

"In Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust, Mary Stanton chronicles deeply influential events that occurred outside the massive drive. Before the tumultuous summer of 1963, Bill Moore, a white mail carrier, made his own assault on racial injustice. Jeered and assailed as he made a solitary civil rights march along the Deep South highways, he was ridiculed by racists as a "crazy man.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-241) and index.