Doug Mcadam
Freedom Summer
Buch
In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staff freedom schools as part of the Freedom Summer campaign organized by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Within ten days, threeof them were murdered; by the summer's end, another had died and hundreds more had endured bombings, beatings, and arrests. Less dramatically, but no less significantly, the volunteers encountered a liberating exposure to new lifestyles, new political ideologies, and a radically new perspectiveon America and on themselves. Films such as Mississippi Burning have…
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In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staff freedom schools as part of the Freedom Summer campaign organized by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Within ten days, threeof them were murdered; by the summer's end, another had died and hundreds more had endured bombings, beatings, and arrests. Less dramatically, but no less significantly, the volunteers encountered a liberating exposure to new lifestyles, new political ideologies, and a radically new perspectiveon America and on themselves. Films such as Mississippi Burning have attempted to document this episode in the civil rights era, but Doug McAdam offers the first book to gauge the impact of Freedom Summer on the project volunteers and the period we now call the turbulent sixties. Tracking down hundreds of the originalproject applicants, and combining hard data with a wealth of personal recollections, he has produced a riveting portrait of the people, the events, and the era. McAdam discovered that during Freedom Summer, the volunteers' encounters with white supremacist violence and their experiences withinterracial relationships, communal living, and a more open sexuality led many of them to climb aboard a political and cultural wave just as it was forming and beginning to wash forward. Many became activists in subsequent protests--including the antiwar movement and the feminist movement--and, most significantly, many of them have remained activists to this day. Brimming with the reminiscences of the Freedom Summer veterans, the book captures the varied motives that compelled themto make the journey south, the terror that came with the explosions of violence, the camaraderie and conflicts they experienced among themselves, and their assorted feelingsabout the lessons they learned.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-506472-8
- EAN: 9780195064728
- Produktnummer: 21833745
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.8 cm 272 g
- Gewicht: 272
Über den Autor
Doug McAdam is author of Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
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