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 delegation. This definitive analytical history--well-written and well-researched--tells the dramatic story. Photos.
Author: John Dittmer · Original publisher: University of Illinois Press (1994), Blacks in the New World series
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/localpeoplestrug00ditt (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche A: localpeoplestrug00ditt; no hosting rights).
