Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

by Michael Edmonds

Book Overview

Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach non-violence, and more than 60,000 black Mississippians risked everything to overturn a system that had brutally exploited them.

In the 44 original documents in this anthology, you'll read their letters, eavesdrop on their meetings, shudder...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870206788
• ISBN13: 9780870206788
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"