Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
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A majestic history of the summer of 1964, which forever changed race relations in America.The New York Times - Dwight GarnerMr. Watson's book derives its power—at its best, it is the literary equivalent of a hot light bulb dangling from a low ceiling—from its narrow focus. Freedom Summer is about the more than 700 college students who, in the summer of 1964, under the supervision of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, risked their lives to travel to Mississippi to register black voters and open schools…The story of these months has been told before, but rarely this viscerally.
Book One Crossroads 3Prologue 5Chapter One "There Is a Moral Wave Building" 15Chapter Two "Not Even Past" 38Chapter Three Freedom Street 56Chapter Four "The Decisive Battlefield for America" 77Chapter Five "It Is Sure Enough Changing" 105Chapter Six "The Scars of the System" 129Interlude: "Another So-Called áFreedom Day'" 152Book Two A Bloody Peace Written in the Sky 167Chapter Seven "Walk Together, Children" 169Chapter Eight "The Summer of Our Discontent" 191Chapter Nine "Lay by Time" 215Chapter Ten "The Stuff Democracy Is Made Of" 237Chapter Eleven "Give unto Them Beauty for Ashes" 262Epilogue 277Acknowledgments 301Notes 303Bibliography 341Index 353
