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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
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With contributions from more than 80 participants, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle is one of the most comprehensive books ever published about the civil rights movement in Mississippi. The anthology focuses on the critical year of 1964, when civil rights workers were beaten, jailed, and murdered, yet freedom schools were established, thousands registered to vote, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged segregated elections. The participants of Freedom Summer have gracefully aged. Some have died. In this book, their stories are told in an unprecedented array of songs, articles, photographs, and drawings, collectively recounting the fierce battle to bring equal rights to Mississippi. Much of the content is controversial. All of it is riveting, eyewitness history.
Contributors include Victoria Gray Adams, George Ballis, Rita Schwerner Bender, Julian Bond, Guy and Candie Carawan, Ben Chaney, Charlie Cobb, Judy Collins, Sis Cunningham, Dave Dennis, Bob Dylan, Marion Wright Edelman, Myrlie Evers, James Forman, Carolyn Goodman, Joanne Grant, Dick Gregory, Lawrence Guyot, Matt Herron, Marshall Jones, Matthew Jones, William Kunstler, Dorie Ladner, Mark Lane, John Lewis, Jerry Mitchell, Mamie Till Mobley, Bob Moses, Jack Newfield, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Pete Seeger, Cleveland Sellers, Bob Zellner, Howard Zinn, and many others.
Contributors include Victoria Gray Adams, George Ballis, Rita Schwerner Bender, Julian Bond, Guy and Candie Carawan, Ben Chaney, Charlie Cobb, Judy Collins, Sis Cunningham, Dave Dennis, Bob Dylan, Marion Wright Edelman, Myrlie Evers, James Forman, Carolyn Goodman, Joanne Grant, Dick Gregory, Lawrence Guyot, Matt Herron, Marshall Jones, Matthew Jones, William Kunstler, Dorie Ladner, Mark Lane, John Lewis, Jerry Mitchell, Mamie Till Mobley, Bob Moses, Jack Newfield, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Pete Seeger, Cleveland Sellers, Bob Zellner, Howard Zinn, and many others.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781588384638 |
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| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
| Publication date: | 11/16/2021 |
| Pages: | 560 |
| Sales rank: | 1,031,306 |
| Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.14(d) |
About the Author
SUSIE ERENRICH is a social movement history documentarian who uses the arts for social change. Her career in nonprofit/arts management and community organizing spans more than four decades. She is the editor of The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement After Kent State 1970, Kent & Jackson State 1970–1990, and Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change. Erenrich is also the producer and host of Wasn't That a Time: Stories & Songs That Moved the Nation, a community radio broadcast on WERA. She serves the International Leadership Association as editor of The Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change Corner.
SUSIE ERENRICH is a social movement history documentarian who uses the arts for social change. Her career in nonprofit/arts management and community organizing spans more than four decades. She is the editor of The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement After Kent State 1970, Kent & Jackson State 1970–1990, and Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change. Erenrich is also the producer and host of Wasn't That a Time: Stories & Songs That Moved the Nation, a community radio broadcast on WERA. She serves the International Leadership Association as editor of The Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change Corner.
JULIAN BOND has been chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors since February 1998. He is a Distinguished Scholar in the School of Government at American University in Washington, D.C., and a professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia.
CANDIE CARAWAN, with her husband Guy Carawan, compiled We Shall Overcome: Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement and contributed to Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. They have been associated with the Highlander Research and Education Center for more than forty years. Throughout the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, the Carawans organized cultural workshops at Highlander and in the field, focused on civil rights, citizenship education in the Sea Islands, and coalfield and environmental organizing in Appalachia.
GUY CARAWAN (1927–2015) was an educator, writer, musician, and collector who dedicated himself to preserving the culture of the South and fighting for the civil rights of its common people. He and his spouse, Candie Carawan, had a decades-long association with the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. The Carawans served as consultants to the public television productions of "Eyes on the Prize" and "History of the Song 'We Shall Overcome.'" Their books include Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? (Georgia), We Shall Overcome, and Freedom Is a Constant Struggle.
Charles Cobb, Jr., a SNCC veteran, is a journalist and visiting professor at Brown University. His latest book is On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail.
JOHN ROBERT LEWIS (1940-2020) was a politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966.
BOB ZELLNER is a civil rights activist. He graduated from Huntingdon College in 1961 and that year became a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as its first white field secretary. Zellner was involved in numerous civil rights efforts, including nonviolence workshops at Talladega College, protests for integration in Danville, Virginia, and organizing Freedom Schools in Greenwood, Mississippi in 1964. He also investigated the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner that summer. He left SNCC in 1966 but continued his civil rights activism. He later taught the history of the civil rights movement at Long Island University.
SUSIE ERENRICH is a social movement history documentarian who uses the arts for social change. Her career in nonprofit/arts management and community organizing spans more than four decades. She is the editor of The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement After Kent State 1970, Kent & Jackson State 1970–1990, and Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change. Erenrich is also the producer and host of Wasn't That a Time: Stories & Songs That Moved the Nation, a community radio broadcast on WERA. She serves the International Leadership Association as editor of The Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change Corner.
SUSIE ERENRICH is a social movement history documentarian who uses the arts for social change. Her career in nonprofit/arts management and community organizing spans more than four decades. She is the editor of The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement After Kent State 1970, Kent & Jackson State 1970–1990, and Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change. Erenrich is also the producer and host of Wasn't That a Time: Stories & Songs That Moved the Nation, a community radio broadcast on WERA. She serves the International Leadership Association as editor of The Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change Corner.
JULIAN BOND has been chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors since February 1998. He is a Distinguished Scholar in the School of Government at American University in Washington, D.C., and a professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia.
CANDIE CARAWAN, with her husband Guy Carawan, compiled We Shall Overcome: Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement and contributed to Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. They have been associated with the Highlander Research and Education Center for more than forty years. Throughout the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, the Carawans organized cultural workshops at Highlander and in the field, focused on civil rights, citizenship education in the Sea Islands, and coalfield and environmental organizing in Appalachia.
GUY CARAWAN (1927–2015) was an educator, writer, musician, and collector who dedicated himself to preserving the culture of the South and fighting for the civil rights of its common people. He and his spouse, Candie Carawan, had a decades-long association with the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. The Carawans served as consultants to the public television productions of "Eyes on the Prize" and "History of the Song 'We Shall Overcome.'" Their books include Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? (Georgia), We Shall Overcome, and Freedom Is a Constant Struggle.
Charles Cobb, Jr., a SNCC veteran, is a journalist and visiting professor at Brown University. His latest book is On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail.
JOHN ROBERT LEWIS (1940-2020) was a politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966.
BOB ZELLNER is a civil rights activist. He graduated from Huntingdon College in 1961 and that year became a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as its first white field secretary. Zellner was involved in numerous civil rights efforts, including nonviolence workshops at Talladega College, protests for integration in Danville, Virginia, and organizing Freedom Schools in Greenwood, Mississippi in 1964. He also investigated the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner that summer. He left SNCC in 1966 but continued his civil rights activism. He later taught the history of the civil rights movement at Long Island University.
SUSIE ERENRICH is a social movement history documentarian who uses the arts for social change. Her career in nonprofit/arts management and community organizing spans more than four decades. She is the editor of The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement After Kent State 1970, Kent & Jackson State 1970–1990, and Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change. Erenrich is also the producer and host of Wasn't That a Time: Stories & Songs That Moved the Nation, a community radio broadcast on WERA. She serves the International Leadership Association as editor of The Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change Corner.
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