“Powerfully conveys the experience of racial prejudice by focusing on two particular boys and their real-live-boy feelings and behavior.” The Mississippi Freedom Summer was an attempt to bring the nation to Mississippi, to open up the state and the South and bring the dirt of racism and. “… a quiet but powerful introduction to the prejudice experienced by many Americans.” What Was Freedom Summer They called it 'a campaign that may have no parallel since the days of Reconstruction.' In 1964, more than 700 civil rights workers focused their efforts on Mississippi. The Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC) was a chief source of legal assistance for the Freedom Summer of 1964, in which black and white. This Anniversary Edition of a cherished and touching story includes a new introduction and a refreshed cover.
FREEDOM SUMMER REGISTRATION
Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other there…only to discover that it takes more than a new law to change people’s hearts. The Freedom Summer, comprised of black Mississippians and more than 1,000 out-of-state, predominately white volunteers, faced constant abuse and harassment from. Freedom Summer was the 1964 voter registration drive that took place all over the state of Mississippi, with Hattiesburg serving as the largest Freedom Summer. Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone. Freedom Summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim.īut there’s one important way they’re different: Joe is white and John Henry is black, and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn’t allowed to do everything his best friend is. John Henry swims better than anyone I know.īut he doesn’t swim in the town pool with me. Now in an Anniversary Edition with a refreshed cover and a new introduction. Published by Anne Schwartz Books/Atheneum/Simon&Schuster 2001Ĭoretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for Jerome LagarrigueĮzra Jack Keats/New York Public Library Award, Best New Picturebook Writer of the Year, and Best New Illustrator, 2002.įriendship defies racism for two boys in this stirring story of the Freedom Summer that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) was a coalition of civil rights organizations that formed in Mississippi in.
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