The freedom summer murders

Mitchell, Don, 1957- author.

Book 2016

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.

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