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Like a Holy Crusade - Mississippi 1964 -- The Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America (Paperback, New ed)
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Like a Holy Crusade - Mississippi 1964 -- The Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America (Paperback, New ed)
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The year 1964 produced a watershed in American race relations. In
one of the civil rights movement's most dramatic initiatives,
thousands of Northern white college students were recruited to come
south that summer in an effort to "break" Mississippi and secure
voting rights for its black citizens. Nicolaus Mills traces the
history of this Summer Project, including its origins and
aftermath, and shows in detail how its consequences involved not
only great victories but also violence (the murders of Michael
Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, among other events)
and disillusion. His persuasive argument is that the noble quest
for racial solidarity turned bitter and divisive in practice,
climaxed by the Democratic party's rejection of the Mississippi
Freedom Democrats at the 1964 national convention. In the rush of
black anger that followed, the gains of the summer were forgotten
and Black Power was born-and blacks went their separate way in
trying to achieve equality in America. Relations between whites and
blacks took a crucial turning which continues powerfully to
influence our politics and social well-being today.
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