Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy (For Young People series)

Bruce Watson

This latest edition in Triangle Square's For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America.In the�summer�of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over,�the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi�to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity…