Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Freedom School Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer

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"Letters from Mississippi gives us a deeply personal look at one of the Civil Rights Movement's key moments-and reminds us that change happens because regular people have decided they were willing to fight for it."-Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund

This expanded edition includes over forty pages of poetry by students in the Freedom Schools of 1964, adding the lively voices of local participants, mostly teenagers, to those of the volunteers from the North. The new edition also includes an additional dozen biographies, resulting in a wider resource for scholarship and for a general understanding of this critical moment in civil rights history.

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Captures the spirit, 2008-12-29
I was one of those volunteers who went to Mississippi during the momentous summer of 1964. I can enthusiastically report that the new edition of "Letters from Mississippi," now including "Freedom School Poetry," is one of the best ways for young people today to get a sense of that event. It captures the hopes, goals, fears, and energy of the time. To those moved by this book who want a deeper appreciation of the strength, commitment and organization of the local black community in Mississippi that had invited us to join their struggle, I would strongly recommend also reading Charles M. Payne's "I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle" and Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi." "Letters" gives a strong sense of the volunteers' experiences, the other two books add local perspectives. Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 impacted not only on the history of this country but also on all those -- volunteers and local activists -- who participated in it.

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Amazing walk through history, 2008-02-24
Not being born during the time of the civil rights movement all that I know is what I have learned from television, classrooms, books, and listening to others. This book was a wonderful eye opener. It made me wonder if I could do the same things the white volunteers did in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer. What a brave and open, heartfelt story.

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