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Freedom walk

Mary Stanton

2003254 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2003
first published
  • 2003University Press of Mississippi · ENGISBN 9781282821255
  • 2003University Press of Mississippi · 254 pages · ENGISBN 9781578065059
  • 2011University Press of Mississippi · ENGISBN 9781604735413

"In 1963, the streams of religious revival, racial strife, and cold-war politics were feeding the swelling river of social unrest in America. Marshaling massive forces, civil rights leaders were primed for a wide-scale attack on injustice in the South. By summer the conflict rose to great intensity as blacks and whites clashed in Birmingham.". "In Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust, Mary Stanton chronicles deeply influential events that occurred outside the massive drive. Before the tumultuous summer of 1963, Bill Moore, a white mail carrier, made his own assault on racial injustice. Jeered and assailed as he made a solitary civil rights march along the Deep South highways, he was ridiculed by racists as a "crazy man.""--BOOK JACKET.

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