Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964 -- The Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America

by Nicolaus Mills

Book Overview

The year 1964 produced a watershed in American race relations. In one of the civil rights movement's most dramatic initiatives, thousands of Northern white college students were recruited to come south that summer in an effort to "break" Mississippi and secure voting rights for its black citizens. Nicolaus Mills traces the history of this Summer Project, including its origins and aftermath, and shows in detail how its consequences involved not only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566630266
• ISBN13: 9781566630269
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A good book about the civil rights movement in Mississippi

This book gives one a good idea about what the SNCC had to endure during the 1960's. Specifically the Summer Project in 1964 is addressed. I enjoyed reading the book. Finished it in one day. What I miss, however, is what impact the changes in the civil rights status for blacks in Mississippi had on the psychy of the white community. What happened to the racist ideology? How did those people deal with the changes that were finally implemented in the state of Mississippi?