Joseph Ehlers’s Reviews > Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy > Status Update

Read about the "Freedom Schools" going up and the successes (and consequences/failures) of the schools across Mississippi.

I didn't do much reading today, but the mystery of the Murder of the three men continues to enthrall me and make me want to know more.

This book was created to show the author's praise for the many people who went and volunteered for the Freedom Summer project, and that is what I believe the Authors purpose is.

Amazing book so far, it really is a great read, its got me hooked on what will happen to these poor college kids for the summer!

Just got to the section where they talk about the murder and attempt to deny the murder of three men from the summer project.

No main character, but the book is great; the volunteers have just arrived in Mississippi and are meeting the host families. I ended on the book explaining on how Freedom Summer came to be: though the murder of Louis Allen, it allowed for the SNCC people to agree to begin Freedom Summer.

Learned about Mississippi after the cival war and what happened during that time up until the books present time

The book is great. It feels like I’m reading a history of war book, with how the SNCC camp was feeling like. The horror stories from the volunteers, the naive other volunteers, and finally the traveling to Mississippi.

Learned about Bob Moses, cool guy.

Bob Moses was a very important part of the movement