Pre-Owned The Freedom Summer Murders (Hardcover) by Don Mitchell

from Sullywriter

An excellent account of the brutal murders of Civil Rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi. I particularly like how Mitchell emphasizes the selfless devotion of these young men to the cause they passionately believed in and their incredible courage to wo...

from yvonne.sevignykaiser

"When historians weigh the sixth decade of the twentieth century in the United States, they will call this murder one of the revealing acts of this decade. It was a planned, deliberate murder to try to prevent racial change; and it was committed by men who called themselves Christians and thought...

from LibraryCin

In 1964, two young white men (civil rights workers), headed down to Mississippi from New York to help register black people to vote. Andy Goodwin and Mickey Schwerner, along with a 21-year old black man, James Chaney, were murdered by local KKK (including local law enforcement). It made headlines...

from zzshupinga

ARC provided by NetGalley In June 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, one of the most horrific events occurred when three young men (one black and two white) were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi for trying to register African Americans to vote. The horror though did not e...

from zzshupinga

ARC provided by NetGalley In June 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, one of the most horrific events occurred when three young men (one black and two white) were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi for trying to register African Americans to vote. The horror though did not e...