Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement

by Mary King

This account of the tumultuous period from 1962 to 1964 profiles the major civil rights leaders and includes the story of the investigation into the murders of Andy Goodman, James Cheney, and Mickey Schwerner

592 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1987

Reviews

[Craig Werner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Personal memoir of a Southern woman who fought on the front lines of the civil rights movement in the early-mid Sixties. King spends a bit more time on the big picture and a bit less on her personal story than I might have preferred, but it's a stirring story in which King played an important, if not starring, role.

[Natasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mary King's story. Very compelling. Very detailed. Good for the history shelves

[Thom Dunn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shortly after graduation, Dick Bauerle told me, Mary King got a job with the Kennedy administration. I recall she was, as a senior at OWU, mesmerized by Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, astonished by the prose. She had always been one of the bright lights in our English department.

Foreward by Andrew Young.