African American
Related: About this forumI am reading "Freedom Summer" by Bruce Watson
Anybody else read it...
When I see the sacrifices made so African Americans in the south can vote I bristle at the criticism they are receiving for voting how they are. They earned the right to vote any damn way they please.
Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)Different author, though...
Found mine in a used book bin for a dollar. Couldn't pass it up.
The McAdam book actually has some of the questionnaires that the applicants for Freedom Summer were given as well as an incident timeline.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)I am trying to find the quote about how moved Fannie Hamer was about the white kids coming from up north to help them organize.
She said something like "we loved those kids. they were special. they treated us as equals..."
Did you know Joe Lieberman went to Mississippi during Freedom Summer?
wildeyed
(11,240 posts)Very interesting.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)Thirty-seven years ago, in the autumn of another political season, Joseph I. Lieberman and a carload of other Yale students headed south from New Haven on a trip of nearly 1,300 miles, stopping only for gas and a quick dinner in the Washington suburbs. They were eager to get to Mississippi, where they hoped to make a little history.
Recruited by William Sloane Coffin Jr., Yale's radical campus chaplain, and Allard K. Lowenstein, the crusading student organizer and future New York congressman, Mr. Lieberman was among 67 Yalies who formed the first large group of Northern white students to travel south for the cause of civil rights.
It was dangerous work. Although Mr. Lieberman escaped harm, some of the students were beaten, others were jailed, and almost all endured petty harassment. They found dirt in their gas tanks, and they were ticketed by sheriffs for running nonexistent stop signs.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/26LIEB.html
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)during the 2000 campaign.
Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)no mention of the quote, though
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)"Nobody ever came to the country and talked to real farmers and things...." Fannie Lou Hamer remembered. "And it was these kids who broke a lot of this down." They treated us like we were special and we loved them."
BlueMTexpat
(15,348 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)As I've been meaning to pick it up.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I'm looking for a new book to read on my new paper white kindle. I love it. And I'm not even trying to pitch a product, lol.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)Like my fellow plebeians, from the library
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)is it we'll-written. How far are you into it?