Book
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
- Published
- 2014
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Pages
- 120
- Words
- 25331
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.9
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 980L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 12–17
This award-winning account introduces the efforts of student volunteers who traveled to Mississippi in 1964 to encourage African Americans to exercise their right to vote and discusses the violent resistance they faced from supporters of segregation.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780823429202
- ISBN-10
- 0823429202
Tags
ALSC NotablesCivil Rights MovementHistory-American/U.S. HistoryNonfictionPeople-African AmericanSocial Issues-Justice/Legal IssuesSocial Issues-ViolenceUnited States-Mississippi