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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 08:42 PM Mar 2016

I 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.

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I am reading "Freedom Summer" by Bruce Watson (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 OP
Funny...I have a book by that title too.. Chitown Kev Mar 2016 #1
I got mine at the library DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #2
I didn't know about Lieberman. wildeyed Mar 2016 #3
Here DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #4
Joe will always get props from me for that. NWCorona Mar 2016 #9
He talked about it a little bit Chitown Kev Mar 2016 #5
I looked up Hamer in the index of mine Chitown Kev Mar 2016 #6
Mississippi blacks met whites who shook their hands and treated them as equals. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #7
K & R! BlueMTexpat Mar 2016 #8
Thanks for bringing this book up NWCorona Mar 2016 #10
How are you enjoying the book? lovemydog Mar 2016 #11
Like my fellow plebeians, from the library DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 #12
Ha! I meant lovemydog Mar 2016 #13

Chitown Kev

(2,197 posts)
1. Funny...I have a book by that title too..
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 08:53 PM
Mar 2016


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)
2. I got mine at the library
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 08:56 PM
Mar 2016

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?

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
4. Here
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 09:04 PM
Mar 2016

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

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
7. Mississippi blacks met whites who shook their hands and treated them as equals.
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 09:22 PM
Mar 2016

"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."

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
11. How are you enjoying the book?
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 02:14 AM
Mar 2016

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)
12. Like my fellow plebeians, from the library
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 11:40 AM
Mar 2016
. How are you enjoying the book?




Like my fellow plebeians, from the library
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