FREEDOM SUMMER

A short list of books commemorating the voter registration drive in Mississippi.

And gently he shall lead them: Robert Parris Moses and civil rights in Mississippi, by Eric Burner. New York: New York University Press, c1994. B M8534bu

Coming of age in Mississippi, by Anne Moody. New York: Dell, 1976, c1968. B M771 & 976.2 M771c - Growing up in a racist society as seen through the eyes of a young black girl who had the courage to challenge it.

Eyes on the prize civil rights reader, general editors, Clayborne Carson ... [et al.]. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1991. 323.4 Ey36

Eyes on the prize videorecording: America's civil rights years, 1954-1965. WGBH Boston; produced by Blackside, Inc. and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1986-1987. VHS 323.4 W673e Volume 4

Fannie Lou Hamer and the fight for the vote, by Penny Colman. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, c1993. jB H177co

Freedom Summer, by Doug McAdam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 976.2 M115f

Freedom's blood, by James D. Forman. New York: F. Watts, 1979. j - Juv Book - A fictional reconstruction of the first weekend of Freedom Summeróa weekend that ended in the murder of three young civil rights workers.

Have no fear: the Charles Evers story, by Charles Evers and Andrew Szanton. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, c1997. B Ev273

I've got the light of freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle, by Charles M. Payne. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994. 323.1 P293I - History of the early civil rights movement in the South, with emphasis on the countless unsung African Americans who risked their lives for the freedom struggle.

Like a holy crusade: Mississippi, 1964óthe turning of the civil rights movement in America, by Nicolaus Mills. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1992. 301.45 M627L

Local people: the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi, by John Dittmer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1994. 323.1 D639L

Mississippi burning: a novel, by Joel Norst; based on a screenplay written by Chris Gerolmo. New York: New American Library, 1988. F

Stokely Carmichael: the story of Black power, by Jacqueline Johnson; with an introduction by Andrew Young. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett, c1990. jB C212jo - The story of the leader of the Black Power movement in the 1960's. He urged African Americans to be self-reliant, reclaim their African heritage, and show black pride.

This little light of mine: the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, by Kay Mills. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Dutton, c1993. B H178mi - A biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, tracing her long odyssey from victimization to awakening and action. She was one of the near-legendary leaders that the 1960's civil rights movement produced.

We are not afraid: the story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the civil rights campaign for Mississippi, by Seth Cagin and Philip Dray. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., c1988. 976.2 C117w - A true account of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner at the hands of Mississippi Ku Klux Klansmen and local police.

 

Prepared by the Reference Staff of the Central Square Branch Library

July 1999