Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

by Bruce Watson

Book Overview

This latest edition in Triangle Square's For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America. In thesummerof 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over,the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippito help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity and the right to vote. The campaign was called "FreedomSummer." But on the evening...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644210096
• ISBN13: 9781644210093
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Triangle Square
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.6" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher