{"product_id":"risking-everything-a-freedom-summer-reader-9780870206788","title":"Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRisking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader\u003c\/i\u003e documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach non-violence, and more than 60,000 black Mississippians risked everything to overturn a system that had brutally exploited them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the 44 original documents in this anthology, you'll read their letters, eavesdrop on their meetings, shudder at their suffering, and admire their courage. You'll witness the final hours of three workers murdered on the project's first day, hear testimony by black residents who bravely stood up to police torture and Klan firebombs, and watch the liberal establishment betray them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e These vivid primary sources, collected by the Wisconsin Historical Society, provide both first-hand accounts of this astounding grassroots struggle as well as a broader understanding of the Civil Rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The selected documents are among the 25,000 pages about the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project in the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The manuscripts were collected in the mid-1960s, at a time when few other institutions were interested in saving the stories of common people in McComb or Ruleville, Mississippi. Most have never been published before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wisconsin Historical Society Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870206788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/27\/2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael Edmonds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52259540566197,"sku":"9780870206788","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_97899236-5c56-4f89-ad90-989e656c8ba7.jpg?v=1771342080","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/risking-everything-a-freedom-summer-reader-9780870206788","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}