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Faces of Freedom Summer
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ISBN-13: | 9780817359867 |
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Publisher: | University of Alabama Press |
Publication date: | 09/20/2022 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 144 |
Product dimensions: | 11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Chapter One
Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio, the site of Freedom Summer orientation
Staughton Lynd conducting a workshop for volunteer Freedom School teachers
Opposite: Bob Zellner (Alabama) and Fannie Lou Hamer (Ruleville, Mississippi)
SNCC field secretary Cordell Reagon (Tennessee) giving instruction in nonviolent self-defense
Above and Opposite: Freedom Summer volunteers
Above: Howard "Poochie" Mobley helping volunteers arriving at COFO headquarters at 507 Mobile Street
Left: The 500 block of Mobile Street across the street from COFO headquarters
Opposite: The 500 block of Mobile Street across the street from COFO headquarters. Shown: the business of local activist Peggy Jean Connor.
COFO-Hattiesburg Project office in the Woods Guest House at 507 Mobile Street. Left to right: Terri Shaw (Guatemala); Joyce Brown; Nancy Ellin (Michigan); Sheila Michaels (New York City).
Vernon Dahmer's Independence Day picnic for the Freedom Summer volunteers at his home in the Kelly Settlement near Hattiesburg. From right: Susan Patterson (Minnesota), Vernon Dahmer, Peter Werner (Michigan). Dahmer is showing a cotton plant to the northern volunteers.
Opposite, left: Vernon Dahmer's Independence Day picnic. From left: Bob "Soda Pop" Ehrenreich? (New York) J. C. Fairley (Hattiesburg), Patricia von Yorck (Berlin; New York) Terri Shaw (Guatemala), and Doug Tuchman (New York City)
Opposite, right: Freedom Summer volunteers and local activists at Vernon Dahmer's Independence Day picnic
Left: Freedom Summer volunteers and local activists at Vernon Dahmer's Independence Day picnic. Those pictured include Marie and Sandra Blalock (Hattiesburg), "Big Daddy," Bob "Soda Pop" Ehrenreich? (New York), Stanley Zibulsky (New York), and Addie Ruth White Evans (Hattiesburg).
Vernon Dahmer's Independence Day picnic. Driving the tractor: Doug Smith (Hattiesburg). Standing at the front of the flat bed are Yvonne Connor (Hattiesburg) and, on her left, volunteer Doug Tuchman (New York City).
Doug Smith, youth coordinator of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project
Vernon Dahmer's Independence Day picnic. Dahmer cooked lots of fried fish in iron pots for the volunteers. In pith helmet: Vernon Dahmer, Far right: Addie Ruth White Evans.
Vernon Dahmer's Independence Day picnic. The anxiety on the faces of the young men reflects fear of retribution from the segregationists. Far left: Addie Ruth White Evans. The young men are from the Ducksworth, Harris, and Taylor families.
Opposite: Automobile in which Herbert Randall, covered with blankets during daylight, rode from Oxford, Ohio to Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The volunteer points to bullet holes in the grille.
Volunteer with second automobile damaged by gunfire. The shop is that of J. C. Fairley in the Negro Masonic Lodge building at 522 Mobile Street.
Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and The Twenties
By Ronald Berman
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
Copyright © 2001 THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
Foreword | ix |
Introduction | 1 |
Faces of Freedom Summer | 29 |
Notes | 125 |
Bibliography | 127 |
Index | 129 |