TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edmonds,Michael
TI  - Risking everything: a Freedom Summer reader 
AV  - E185.93.M6 R57 2014
U1  - 323.1196/0730762 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Madison
PB  - Wisconsin Historical Society Press
KW  - Mississippi Freedom Project
KW  - Archives
KW  - Wisconsin Historical Society
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sources
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - African American civil rights workers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
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