Risking everything : (Record no. 149686)
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| fixed length control field | 03421nam a2200457 i 4500 |
| ISBN | 9780870206795 (e-book) |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 323.1196/0730762 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Risking everything : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 online resource (265 pages) : |
| Other physical details | illustrations, map |
| 520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Risking Everything : A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach non-violence, and more than 60,000 Black Mississippians risked everything to overturn a system that had brutally exploited them. In the 44 original documents in this anthology, you'll read their letters, eavesdrop on their meetings, shudder at their suffering, and admire their courage. You'll witness the final hours of three workers murdered on the project's first day, hear testimony by Black residents who bravely stood up to police torture and Klan firebombs, and watch the liberal establishment betray them. These vivid primary sources, collected by the Wisconsin Historical Society, provide both first-hand accounts of this astounding grassroots struggle as well as a broader understanding of the Civil Rights movement. The selected documents are among the 25,000 pages about the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project in the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The manuscripts were collected in the mid-1960s, at a time when few other institutions were interested in saving the stories of common people in McComb or Ruleville, Mississippi. Most have never been published before"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | African Americans |
| Topical Term | Civil rights movements |
| Topical Term | African American civil rights workers |
| Topical Term | Civil rights workers |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Edmonds, Michael, |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10988225 |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Madison : |
| -- | Wisconsin Historical Society Press, |
| -- | [2014] |
| -- | �2014 |
| 336 ## - | |
| -- | text |
| -- | rdacontent |
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| -- | computer |
| -- | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - | |
| -- | online resource |
| -- | rdacarrier |
| 520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| -- | Provided by publisher. |
| 588 ## - | |
| -- | Description based on print version record. |
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