Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer

by Davis W. Houck

Book Overview

Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events--especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner--stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the history but also the public memory of the Mississippi Summer Project.

Beginning in the late 1970s, however, movement veterans challenged this central narrative with the shocking claim that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149684078X
• ISBN13: 9781496840783
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"