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In 1964, nearly a thousand volunteers went to Mississippi to work with veteran civil rights organizers and local people on various projects. The summer began with three Ku Klux Klan murders and ended with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party's challenge to the state's segregationist... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Setting & Locations edit
- New Mississippi
- Sncc
- Hattiesburg
- Natchez
- Atlantic City
- Tougaloo College
- Washington
- Canton
- Clarksdale
- New York
- Greenville
- Ruleville
- White House
- Chicago
- Madison County
- Philadelphia
- Alabama
- Indianola
- Grenada
- Magnolia State
- United States
- America
- Memphis
- Vicksburg
- Atlanta
- Oxford
- Head Start
- Birmingham
- Neshoba County
- Biloxi
- Gulf Coast
- Cleveland
- Klan
- Columbus
- Mound Bayou
- Selma
- Louisiana
- Belzoni
- Cobb
- New Orleans
- Yazoo City
- Vietnam
- Pike County
- Medgar
- Winona
- Ohio
- California
First Sentence edit
On July 2, 1946, Medgar Wylie Evers celebrated his twenty-first birthday by leading a group of Word War II veterans, including his brother Charles, Through the nearly abandoned streets of Decatur.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Blacks in the New World. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Dittmer (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0252021029
Page Count: 530
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0252021029
Page Count: 530
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: E185.93.M6 D58 1994
- Dewey: 323.11960730762
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › African Americans › History
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › Mississippi
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Race Relations › America
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › Ethnic Studies
- Books › Reference › Genealogy › United States › Mississippi
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
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