ITEM OVERVIEW
During the summer of 1964, a coalition of civil rights organizations sent volunteers into Mississippi to expand black voter registration in the State, to challenge the whites-only Mississippi Democratic Party, to establish "freedom schools" and to open community centers. This is a collection of moving, personal letters written by volunteers of the summer. Out of print for nearly 30 years, this edition contains a new preface by its editor, Elizabeth Martinez, an introduction by Julian Bond, and explanatory endnotes and never before published photographs.
"These letters bring to life, sometimes with tears, always with pride, that extraordinary summer when young people from all over the country joined black people in Mississippi in their determined quest for equal rights. Elizabeth Martinez, with this volume, makes an invaluable and unique contribution to the history of social struggle in America." —Howard Zinn
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