| #198968 in Books | Douglas McAdam | 1990-09-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.38 x.73 x8.00l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 368 pages | Freedom Summer||14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Spectacular|By Not Usually Hard To Please|This book should be required reading for any of us crusty old lefties. A nice reminder (along with Martin Luther King Jr's "Why We Can't Wait") that sometimes with enough strength and drive, we can make the impossible possible. A great recounting, not only of the civil rights movement, but also the emerging New Left philosophy. Ric||"A fascinating blend of theory, biography, and history that gives a sociological account of an era with real people rather than abstractions. With solid research, he shows that one summer for 1,000 people has had a national, if not international, impact in wa
In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staff "freedom schools" as part of the Freedom Summer campaign organized by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Within ten days, three of them were murdered; by the summer's end, another had died and hundreds more had endured bombings, beatings, and arrests. Less dramatically, but no less significantly, the volunteers ...
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