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Mississippi - The Long, Hot Summer (Hardcover)
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Mississippi - The Long, Hot Summer (Hardcover)
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series
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In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements
for social change in the United States, began a study of
Mississippi's Freedom Summer. Stanford University, where McCord
taught, had been the site of recruiting efforts for student
volunteers for the Freedom Summer project by such activists as
Robert Moses and Allard Lowenstein. Described by his wife as ""an
old-fashioned liberal,"" McCord believed that he should both
examine and participate in events in Mississippi. He accompanied
student workers and black Mississippians to courthouses and Freedom
Houses, and he attracted police attention as he studied the
mechanisms of white supremacy and the black nonviolent campaign
against racial segregation. Published in 1965 by W. W. Norton, his
book, Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer, is one of the first
examinations of the events of 1964 by a scholar. It provides a
compelling, detailed account of Mississippi people and places,
including the thousands of student workers who found in the state
both opportunities and severe challenges. McCord's work sought to
communicate to a broad audience the depth of repression in
Mississippi. Here was evidence of the need for federal action to
address what he recognized as both national and southern failures
to secure civil rights for black Americans. His field work and
activism in Mississippi offered a perspective that few other
academics or other white Americans had shared. Historian Francoise
N. Hamlin provides a substantial introduction that sets McCord's
work within the context of other narratives of Freedom Summer and
explores McCord's broader career that combined distinguished
scholarship with social activism.
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