Ed King’s Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer

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Ed King’s Mississippi: At the back of the Scenes of Freedom Summer features more than forty unpublished black-and-white photographs and substantial writings by the prominent civil rights activist Reverend Ed King. The images and text provide a unique point of view on Mississippi all through the summer of 1964. Taken in Jackson, Greenwood, and Philadelphia, the photographs showcase informal images of Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Mississippi civil rights workers, and college student volunteers within the movement. Ed King’s writings offer background and insights at the motivations and work of Freedom Summer volunteers, at the racial climate of Mississippi all through the late 1950s and 1960s, and the grassroots effort by black Mississippians to go into the political arena and exercise their fundamental civil rights.

Ed King, a native of Vicksburg and a Methodist minister, used to be a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and a key figure within the civil rights movement within the state within the 1960s. As some of the few white Mississippians with a leadership position within the movement, his words and photographs offer a rare At the back of-the-scenes chronicle of events within the state all through Freedom Summer. Ed King is a retired faculty member of the School of Health Related Professions, University of Mississippi Medical Center. Historian Trent Watts furnishes a substantial introduction to the volume and offers background at the Freedom Summer campaign in addition to a description of Ed King’s civil rights activism from the late 1950s to the current day.

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