Freedom summer
Subtitle: the savage season of 1964 that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
By: Bruce Watson
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780143119432
Subjects: Race relations; Civil rights workers; Civil rights; Suffrage; African Americans; Civil rights movements; History
Description: Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi, while vividly portraying: the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state, the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life.
Notes: Previously pub.: Viking, c2010.

Previous ed. bears slightly different subtitle.

Various printings.

First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, 2010. Under title: Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crossroads. "There is a moral wave building" ; "Not even past" ; Freedom street ; "The decisive battlefield for America" ; "It is sure enough changing" ; "The scars of the system" ; "Another so-called 'freedom day'"; title: A bloody peace written in the sky. "Walk together, children" ; "The summer of our discontent" ; "Lay by time" ; "The stuff democracy is made of" ; "Give unto them beauty for ashes".