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Item Nr: B 118367 Title: Freedom Summer : The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Rubin, Susan Goldman
Length: 120 Prod/Pub: Holiday House
Copyright: 2014 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Introduces the efforts of student volunteers who traveled to Mississippi in 1964 to encourage African Americans to exercise their right to vote, and discusses the violent resistance they faced from supporters of segregation. AR 6.9 Lexile 980 IL 6-10.

  Subjects:
  26 - AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  306 - CIVIL RIGHTS
  401 - DISCRIMINATION
  666 - KU KLUX KLAN
  1679 - LEXILE 900-999
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  1108 - U.S.--HISTORY
  1126 - U.S.--HISTORY--1961-1969