Letters From Mississippi
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Author | : Elizabeth Martínez |
Publisher | : Zephyr Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2024-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1938890329 |
Letters from Mississippi offers a riveting, personal and multi-faceted narrative of the dramatic events that took place during the summer of 1964, "Freedom Summer," when hundreds of people came to Mississippi to volunteer with the Mississippi Summer Voting Project. The book covers the disappearance and murder of James Cheney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the Freedom Schools, the violence and tensions at voting registration centers, and the political struggles in the halls of power. The original publication of Letters from Mississippi in 1965 was an immediate record of the mostly white volunteers in the Mississippi Summer Voting Project of 1964 ("Freedom Summer"). It went out of print in 1970. Zephyr Press' 2002 edition took the original text and placed it in a context of the history of the civil rights movement, of the broader scene in Mississippi during that summer, and of the subsequent lives of the volunteers. That edition has become a staple in studies of the civil rights movement, but it still focuses mostly on the "outsiders" in their Mississippi communities. This fiftieth anniversary edition includes: expanded biographical notes from previous editions, additional biographies of contributors to the original book, expanded notes, a filmography, and 40 pages of poetry written in the Freedom Schools by Mississippi students in 1964. The result is a wider resource for scholarship as well as for a general understanding of this critical moment in civil rights history. Elizabeth Martínez (1925-2021), edited and wrote the preface for Letters from Mississippi. She published six books and numerous articles on popular struggles in the Americas including De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century. Julian Bond (1940-2015) wrote the introduction to the book. He served four terms on the NAACP National Board and was chairman from 1998 to 2010. He was president of the Atlanta NAACP from 1978 until 1989.
Author | : Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez |
Publisher | : New York : McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Personal impressions of conditions and events in the summer of 1964 told in selections from letters home by workers in the Civil Rights movement in that area.
Author | : Robert G. Evans |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
ISBN | : 9781578064861 |
"The words of these common soldiers fighting in one of the most notable units in the Army of Northern Virginia will fascinate both civil war buffs and historians.".
Author | : Elizabeth Martinez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781938890024 |
Revised edition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer
Author | : Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rebecca Giles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2020-12-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781734495041 |
Coastal Mississippi Alphabet celebrates the people, places, and events unique to the area of south Mississippi from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula teaching while it entertains. Rhymed verse, interesting facts, historical photographs, and beautifully detailed illustrations depict the rich offerings of this distinctive geographic region. A hidden picture activity and a glossary of terms enhance the learning in this delightfully educational book.
Author | : William Sturkey |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1626743991 |
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands of young African American students. Here they learned civics, politics, and history, curriculum that helped them instead of the degrading lessons supporting segregation and Jim Crow and sanctioned by White Citizen's Councils. Young people enhanced their self-esteem and gained a new outlook on the future. And at more than a dozen of these schools, students wrote, edited, printed and published their own newspapers. For more than five decades, the Mississippi Freedom Schools have served as powerful models of educational activism. Yet, little has been published that documents black Mississippi youths' responses to this profound experience.
Author | : Ted Ownby |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 1461 |
Release | : 2017-05-25 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1496811593 |
Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Author | : Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez |
Publisher | : New York : McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Personal impressions of conditions and events in the summer of 1964 told in selections from letters home by workers in the Civil Rights movement in that area.
Author | : Richard Grant |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476709645 |
New Yorkers Grant and his girlfriend Mariah decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. This is their journey of discovery to a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters, capture the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, and delve deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. As the nomadic Grant learns to settle down, he falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home.