Freedom Summer (Carter G. Woodson Institute)

Sally Belfrage, Irene Skolnick (Prepared by)

$34.30

Publication Date: September 29th, 1990

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press

ISBN:

9780813912998

Pages:

246

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Freedom Summer is a richly detailed account of a young white woman who participated in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's summer project in Mississippi in 1964. The text covers one intense summer from the basic training session in June to the Democratic Convention in August.

Freedom Summer (Carter G. Woodson Institute)

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