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02123aam a2200337Ma 4500 001 BBEB3B44E76811E1AF1839E46AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120816010357 008 110806s2010 nyu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0143119435 020 $a 9780143119432 035 $a (OCoLC)745562994 040 $a ERL $c ERL $d SILO 050 $a E185.93.M6 $b W285 2010 100 1 $a Watson, Bruce. 245 1 $a Freedom summer : $b the savage season of 1964 that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy / $c Bruce Watson. 260 $a New York : $b Penguin, $c c2010. 300 $a 369 p., 8 leaves of plates : $c 22 cm. 505 0 $a Crossroads. "There is a moral wave building" ; "Not even past" ; Freedom street ; "The decisive battlefield for America" ; "It is sure enough changing" ; "The scars of the system" ; "Another so-called 'freedom day'" -- A bloody peace written in the sky. "Walk together, children" ; "The summer of our discontent" ; "Lay by time" ; "The stuff democracy is made of" ; "Give unto them beauty for ashes". 520 $a Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi, while vividly portraying: the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state, the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $z Mississippi $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $z Mississippi $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Civil rights movements $z Mississippi $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Civil rights workers $z Mississippi $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Mississippi $x History $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 3 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525040830.0 952 $l IBAX173 $d 20180307030200.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20120928010839.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BBEB3B44E76811E1AF1839E46AFF544E 994 $a Z0 $b IOOInitiate Another SILO Locator Search