A tremendous book about our history that many don't know anything about. It should be apart of every American history course. These young people and Mississippi blacks were so courageous during a time when no one, and I mean no one was paying attention to their safety or freedom. Jim Crow was alive and well. People were starving, mistreated, beaten, hanged, and plenty of other disgusting things for minor infractions of the law or trumpeted up reasons. Prejudiced ruled. This summer project brought to the forefront of America how bad life was for the black people in the south but especially in Mississippi in 1964. A must read. Bruce Watson helps you feel the true despair that was Mississippi in 1964 for black residents of the state. He brings out the lives of the student volunteers who came to the state that summer to help bring civil rights changes to the state through voter registrations and Freedom Schools. The book is beautifully written and gives you a full sense of this part of our nation's long struggles for civil rights. Only problem with the book is that no map of Mississippi is included in the book (a pet peeve of mine).
Wow! I feel downright un-american for being so ignorant about the civil rights movement.
—Alicia
Good book about the history of the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi in the 1960s.
—MariA
Great book but I'm not sure about all the optimism at the end
—ak0000000000
Interesting story about the freedom riders of the '60's
—Pajaro
