Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom.



This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Burning, is now the subject of Bruce ...