03421nam a2200457 i 4500 ebr10988225 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 140311t20142014wiuab ob 001 0deng|d 9780870206788 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780870206795 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)899007651 n-us-ms n-us-wi E185.93.M6 R57 2014eb 323.1196/0730762 23 Risking everything : a Freedom Summer reader / edited by Michael Edmonds. Madison : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2014] �2014 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, map text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Mississippi Freedom Project Archives. Wisconsin Historical Society Archives. African Americans Civil rights Mississippi History 20th century Sources. Civil rights movements Mississippi History 20th century Sources. African American civil rights workers Mississippi Biography. Civil rights workers Mississippi Biography. Mississippi Race relations History 20th century Sources. Electronic books. Edmonds, Michael, 1952- editor. Print version: Risking everything : a Freedom Summer reader. Madison : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2014] xix, 243 pages ; 23 cm 9780870206788 (DLC)10988225 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10988225 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 149686 149686