The Freedom Summer Murders

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Call Number: Teen 323.119 Mi, Teen Book / Nonfiction / History
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen 323.119 Mi	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Nonfiction / History	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"We shall not be moved" lyrics -- Prologue -- Introduction -- A planned, deliberate murder -- Andrew Goodman -- James Chaney -- Michael Schwerner -- The long summer -- Three streaks of lightning in the sky -- Making the federal case -- Mississippi moves toward a murder trial -- The trail of Edgar Ray Killen -- Afterword: Toward the beloved community -- Saint: Fannie Lou Hamer -- Visionary: Bob Moses -- Witness: Florence Mars -- Investigator: Jerry Mitchell.
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.
In June of 1964, three idealistic young men (one black and two white) were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. They were trying to register African Americans to vote as part of the Freedom Summer effort to bring democracy to the South. Their disappearance and murder caused a national uproar and was one of the most significant incidents of the Civil Rights Movement, and contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Mitchell takes a comprehensive look at the brutal murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, through to the conviction in 2005 of mastermind Edgar Ray Killen.

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Interesting submitted by Motomori on June 17, 2015, 11:33am This was an interesting story that helped me learn more about what the Civil Rights movement was all about.