Freedom Summer: A Brief History with Documents

by John Dittmer, Jeff Kolnick, Leslie Burl McLemore

Discover what took place in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Through speeches, letters, reports, and activist training documents, Freedom Summer traces the story of a grassroots voter registration movement, challenging the Jim Crow system of segregation which wove its way through communities in Mississippi.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Politics

192 pages, Paperback

Published September 23, 2016

Reviews

[Abby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for my history class, now need to do a project over it!