Title: Freedom summer
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.
Subjects: Race relations, Civil rights workers, Civil rights, Suffrage, African Americans, Civil rights movements, History, New York Times reviewed, African americans, civil rights, African americans, suffrage, Civil rights movements, united states, United states, race relations
Places: Mississippi
Time periods: 20th century