Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Freedom School Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0939010925 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was President of the Atlanta NAACP from 1978 until 1989. About the AuthorShe has published six books and numerous articles on popular struggles in the Americas including De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century. Bond has served four terms on the NAACP National Board and since l998 has been Board Chairman. He is President Emeritus of the Southern Poverty Law Center and currently serves on its Board.
Five Stars DLTS - HCC Excellent. History as it was made Bruce Watson In addition to being of enormous help to me as I wrote "Freedom Summer," this book is simply the best collection of letters I have ever read on any topic. The volunteers of Freedom Summer were more than courageous and idealistic. They were great writers, and this very well-arranged collection follows them from training in Ohio through to the shock of arrival in Mississippi and on. Captures the spirit Mark Levy I was one of those volunteers who went to Mississippi during the momentous summer of 1964. I can enthusiastically report that the new edition of "Letters from Mississippi," now including "Freedom School Poetry," is one of the best ways for young people today to get a sense of that event. It captures the hopes, goals, fears, and energy of the time. To those moved by this book who
Bond has served four terms on the NAACP National Board and since l998 has been Board Chairman. He is President Emeritus of the Southern Poverty Law Center and currently serves on its Board.. He was President of the Atlanta NAACP from 1978 until 1989. She has published six books and numerous articles on popular struggles in the Americas including De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
The new edition also includes an additional dozen biographies, resulting in a wider resource for scholarship and for a general understanding of this critical moment in civil rights history.. “Letters from Mississippi gives us a deeply personal look at one of the Civil Rights Movement’s key moments—and reminds us that change happens because regular people have decided they were willing to fight for it.”—Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense FundThis expanded edition includes over forty pages of poetry by students in the Freedom Schools of 1964, adding the lively voices of local participants, mostly teenagers, to those of the volunteers from the North