Letters from Mississippi edited by Elizabeth Sutherland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martínez, Elizabeth Sutherland, 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.).

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

African Americans.

United States--Race relations--Sources.

United States.

Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Correspondence.

Civil rights workers.

Mississippi--Race relations--Sources.

Mississippi.

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

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

Civil rights movements.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Race relations.

Genre:

Sources.

Correspondence.

History.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xi, 234 pages maps 21 cm

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Place of Publication:

New York, McGraw-Hill [1965]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The road to Mississippi

At home in a Black world

That long walk to the courthouse

School for freedom

The other country

Mr. Charlie and Miss Anne

The Greenwood story

Philadelphia, August third

The nitty gritty

Democrats for freedom

The road back.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Martínez, Elizabeth Sutherland, 1925- Letters from Mississippi.

OCLC:

3077260