Risking everything : a Freedom Summer reader / / edited by Michael Edmonds
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| Titolo: |
Risking everything : a Freedom Summer reader / / edited by Michael Edmonds
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| Pubblicazione: | Madison : , : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.1196/0730762 |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans - Civil rights - Mississippi - History - 20th century |
| Civil rights movements - Mississippi - History - 20th century | |
| African American civil rights workers - Mississippi | |
| Civil rights workers - Mississippi | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mississippi Race relations History 20th century Sources |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | EdmondsMichael <1952-> |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Map of Office Locations during Freedom Summer""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1. Before Freedom Summer""; ""“A Guide to Mississippi,� Spring 1964 / Journalist Jerry DeMuth�s introduction to life in the heart of the segregated South""; ""“Rugged, Ragged �Snick�: What It Is and What It Does� / A portrait of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee""; ""Fannie Lou Hamer Deposition / A personal account of the torture of Delta women for using whites-only facilities"" |
| ""Application to Work on the Freedom Summer Project / Andrew Goodman�s volunteer application, March 1964""""Mississippi Summer Project Launched / SNCC announces Freedom Summer to the press, March 20, 1964""; ""Letter from Volunteer Training in Oxford, Ohio / Joel Bernard writes home on June 25, 1964, from Freedom Summer orientation""; ""Possible Role-Playing Situations / Volunteers prepare to meet hostile conditions in Mississippi""; ""Security Handbook / Manual for volunteers describing how to face the summer�s dangers"" | |
| ""Nonviolence: Two Training Documents / Volunteers are introduced to the theory and practice of nonviolence""""Chapter 3. Opposition and Violence""; ""Mississippi Readies Laws for Freedom Summer / Bills introduced in the Mississippi legislature to thwart Freedom Summer, June 1964""; ""The Klan Ledger / The Klan reacts to Freedom Summer, September 1964""; ""The Citizens� Council: A History / The head of the White Citizens� Councils explains their history and mission"" | |
| ""Summary of Major Points in Testimony by Citizens of Mississippi to Panel of June 8, 1964 / Black Mississippians describe the intimidation and harassment they faced""""“Road to Mississippi� / Journalist Louis Lomax�s haunting account of the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner on June 21, 1964""; ""Memo to Parents of Mississippi Summer Volunteers, Late June 1964 / Bob Moses writes to parents of volunteers after the murders""; ""Selected Hate Mail / Vicious correspondence sent to staff and families by racist opponents of Freedom Summer"" | |
| ""Notes and Letter from Neshoba County, August 15�22, 1964 / A volunteer moves to the town where the three murdered men worked"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Risking Everything : A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach non-violence, and more than 60,000 Black Mississippians risked everything to overturn a system that had brutally exploited them. In the 44 original documents in this anthology, you'll read their letters, eavesdrop on their meetings, shudder at their suffering, and admire their courage. You'll witness the final hours of three workers murdered on the project's first day, hear testimony by Black residents who bravely stood up to police torture and Klan firebombs, and watch the liberal establishment betray them. These vivid primary sources, collected by the Wisconsin Historical Society, provide both first-hand accounts of this astounding grassroots struggle as well as a broader understanding of the Civil Rights movement. The selected documents are among the 25,000 pages about the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project in the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The manuscripts were collected in the mid-1960s, at a time when few other institutions were interested in saving the stories of common people in McComb or Ruleville, Mississippi. Most have never been published before"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Risking everything |
| ISBN: | 0-87020-679-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460040103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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