This latest edition in Triangle Square's For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America.

Historian Trent Watts furnishes a substantial introduction to the volume and offers background on the Freedom Summer campaign as well as a description of Ed King's civil rights activism from the late 1950s to the present day.

The text covers one intense summer from the basic training session in June to the Democratic Convention in August. It is a book where the author tells about her summer in the South, and how it affected her.

In tracing the stories of Freedom School students into adulthood, this book reveals the ways in which these individuals turned training into decades of activism.

... Freedom Summer : " We shoot marbles in the dirt un- til we're too hot to be alive . " What is most likely the author's meaning ? ( A ) The boys are suffering from a heat re- lated illness and are ... Freedom Summer : ". 1.1 FREEDOM SUMMER 6.

" The book delves into the motivations for women's civil rights activism and the role religion played in influencing supporters and opponents of the civil rights movement.

... Freedom Summer . The University of Southern Mississippi , n.d. Web . 21 July 2013 . 11. Herbert Randall and Bobs M. Tusa . Faces of Freedom Summer . Tuscaloosa : U of Alabama P , 2001. Print . 10 . Chapter 4. Spring Training 1. Chris ...

People Make Movements provides the historical context to the Freedom Schools of Mississippi in 1964.

... Freedom Summer volunteers, thousands of African Americans in Mississippi stepped forward to claim their right to vote during the summer of 1964. They braved violence and intimidation. News coverage of Freedom Summer opened the eyes of ...

... Freedom Summer Murders . New York : Scholastic , 2016 . Mooney , Carla . Freedom Summer , 1964. Edina , MN : ADBO Books Core Library , 2015 . Rubin , Susan Goldman . Freedom Summer : The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi ...