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Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi (Civil Rights and Struggle)

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The world’s eyes were on Mississippi all the way through the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists. Sue Sojourner and her husband arrived in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the wake of this historic time, referred to as “Freedom Summer.”

From September 1964 until her departure from the state in 1969, Sojourner collected an unbelievable collection of documents, oral histories, and photographs chronicling the dramatic events that she witnessed. In this remarkable book, written in collaboration with Cheryl Reitan, Sojourner presents an interesting account of probably the most civil rights movement’s most active and broad-based community organizing operations in the South.

Thunder of Freedom unites Sojourner’s personal experiences with her insights regarding the dynamics of race relations in the 1960s South, providing readers with a unique take a look at the struggle for rights and equality in Mississippi. Illustrated with selections from Sojourner’s acclaimed catalog of photographs, this profound book tells the powerful, ceaselessly intimate stories of odd people who accomplished strange things.

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