Freedom Summer - Bruce W. Watson [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
BOOK ONE - Crossroads
Prologue
CHAPTER ONE - “There Is a Moral Wave Building”
CHAPTER TWO - “Not Even Past”
CHAPTER THREE - Freedom Street
CHAPTER FOUR - “The Decisive Battlefield for America”
CHAPTER FIVE - “It Is Sure Enough Changing”
CHAPTER SIX - “The Scars of the System”
INTERLUDE - “Another So-Called ‘Freedom Day’”
BOOK TWO - A Bloody Peace Written in the Sky
CHAPTER SEVEN - “WalkTogether, Children”
CHAPTER EIGHT - “The Summer of Our Discontent”
CHAPTER ONE - “Lay by Time”
CHAPTER TEN - “The Stuff Democracy Is Made Of ”
CHAPTER ELEVEN - “Give unto Them Beauty for Ashes”
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made
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Freedom summer : the savage summer that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy / Bruce Watson. p. cm.
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1. African Americans—Civil rights—Mississippi—History—20th century. 2. African Americans—Suffrage—Mississippi—History—20th century. 3. Civil rights movements—Mississippi—History—20th century. 4. Civil rights workers—Mississippi—History—20th century. 5. Mississippi—Race relations—History—20th century. I. Title.
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