Letters from Mississippi / edited and with a preface by Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez ; introduction by Julian Bond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martínez, Elizabeth Sutherland, 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Sources.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Civil rights movements.

Race relations.

Civil rights workers.

Mississippi.

United States--Race relations--Sources.

United States.

Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Correspondence.

Mississippi--Race relations--Sources.

African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century--Sources.

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--Sources.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.).

Genre:

Sources.

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 326 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Zephyr Press, [2002]

Summary:

During the summer of 1964, a presidential election year, the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) sent volunteers into Mississippi to expand black voter registration in the state, to organize a legally constituted "Freedom Democratic Party" that would challenge the whites-only Mississippi Democratic party, to establish "freedom schools" to teach reading and math to black children, and to open community centers where individuals could obtain legal and medical assistance. Eight hundred students gathered for a week-long orientation session at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, that June. They were mostly white and young, with an average age of 21. Letters from Mississippi is a collection of moving, personal letters written by volunteers of the summer.

Out-of-print for 30 years, this edition contains new introductory remarks by its editor, Elizabeth Martinez, and by Julian Bond, and is augmented with explanatory notes and never before published photographs.

Contents:

The Road to Mississippi 3

At Home in a Black World 41

That Long Walk to the Courthouse 75

School for Freedom 103

The Other Country 137

Mr. Charlie and Miss Anne 175

The Greenwood Story 193

Philadelphia, August Third 217

The Nitty Gritty 227

Democrats for Freedom 241

The Road Back 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-326) and index.

ISBN:

0939010712

OCLC:

50043182