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Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Bruce Watson, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Illustrator: Archival photography
Ages: 14+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 978-1-64421-009-3
Keywords: Mississippi Freedom Project, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Civil Rights, African Americans, Suffrage, Race Relations, civil disobedience, racial violence
In the summer of 1964, college students registered black voters in Mississippi and opened schools for youngsters. Archival photos, extensive back matter.