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Author:

Walter, Mildred Pitts.

Title:

Mississippi challenge / by Mildred Pitts Walter.

Edition:

1st Aladdin pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Aladdin Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

1996, c1992

Description:

xv, 205 p. : ill.

Subject:

African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi.
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History.
Mississippi--Race relations.

Notes:

"A Coretta Scott King honor book"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-198) and index.

Contents:

Sit-ins, stand-ins, wade-ins, and kneel-ins -- Mississippi: A land of contrasts -- Cotton and slavery -- Road to freedom -- Cotton and racism -- Many thousand gone -- Freedom, a constant sorrow -- Down in the Delta -- Long summer for freedom -- Atlantic City bound -- Freedom party goes to Washington.

Summary:

This in-depth history of the civil rights struggle in one state tells how ordinary people worked and protested and suffered to change the political system. The combination works well: the sometime complicated legal struggle of the 1960s is set side by side with personal testimony about what is was like to sit in, go to prison, register to vote and organize. [The author] gives us an important chapter in American history from the viewpoint of those who struggled. -Back cover.

ISBN:

9780689803079 (pbk.) :
0689803079 (pbk.) :

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)