Product Description: Examines the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, which asked both black and white volunteers to travel throughout Mississippi, registering black Mississippians to vote, establishing "Freedom Schools" for black children, and organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

It was the Freedom Summer of 1964. Civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were driving through rural Mississippi. When a police cruiser flashed its lights behind them, they hesitated. Were these law-abiding officers or members of the Ku Klux Klan? Should they pull over or try to outrun their pursuers?

Robert Parris Moses was an important leader in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and worked to make many lasting changes in the world. This exciting biography tells his life story and explains the ways his perseverance and unique qualities continue to set examples today. Readers will be inspired to learn about the life of Robert Parris Moses and the ways in which he overcame adversity and hardships, while making his mark in the world.

Product Description: Medgar Evers grew up at a time when African Americans in Mississippi did not have the same rights as white Americans. The story of his life, a life spent working for civil rights for African Americans is told in this in-depth biography. Find out how his p

Product Description: Discusses the experiences of the volunteers who took part in the voter registration and education campaign in Mississippi in 1964, the murder of three of them, and the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.Title: Freedom SummerAuthor: Aretha, DavidPublisher: Morgan Reynolds PubPublication Date: 2007/11/15Number of Pages: 128Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 200702381...read more

The author recounts her childhood in rural, segregated Mississipi during the 1960s and 1970s.

Discusses the lives of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and his assassin Byron De La Beckwith. (view table of contents)