Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers

Name: Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers
Brand: Baraka Books
SKU: 9781926824895
Price: 15.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-926-82489-5

Memories of Mississippi 1964-65

de Jim Dann (auteur), John Harris (préface), Tracy Sugarman (illustrateur)

Maison d'édition : Baraka Books

août 2013

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“Jim Dann’s Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers takes us through the experience of bringing the civil rights movement to Sunflower County, Mississippi. This enthralling book is an original source of living history about the civil rights movement in Mississippi.”Stacy J. White, Ph.D., Chair of the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mississippi Valley State University“‘We shall overcome’ really works, and Jim Dann provides the evidence in this first-person account of the Freedom Movement which transformed Mississippi and the rest of the country. The lessons of this clearly-written, enjoyable book are needed by all of us, particularly the emerging generation of activists.”Kitty Kelly Epstein, PhD, Professor and Activist, 2013 Recipient of the Scholar Activist Award from the Urban Affairs Association“Many opposed slavery, but few were abolitionists; many opposed segregation, but few lifted a hand to end it. Jim Dann answered the call. If you want to know the how and why of fighting oppression, open this book.”Phil Taylor, Radio Broadcaster at CIUT, Toronto“A very vivid account of extraordinary commitment and courage by young Americans to achieve what was perhaps the most important social change of our time.”Alan Perry, New Zealand

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Résumé

In June 1964, courageous young civil rights workers risked their lives in the face of violence, intimidation, illegal arrests, and racism to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. With a firsthand account of the details and thoughtful descriptions of key people on the front lines, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles McLaurin, John Harris, Irene McGruder, and many more, author Jim Dann brings that historic period back to life. He places those 15 months in Mississippi—known as Freedom Summer—in the overall history of the struggle of African Americans for freedom, equality, and democratic rights in the South, the country, and throughout the world. Fraught with lessons drawn from those experiences, Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers is a valuable contribution to understanding and advancing civil rights struggles in addition to being a fascinating and engrossing story of a pivotal moment in the mid-20th-century United States.

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Jim Dann (auteur)

Jim Dann was born in 1940 and graduated in physics from Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pa. A graduate student in history at UCLA in 1964, he volunteered for the Mississippi Summer Project organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. At the SNCC’s request he stayed on and was hired as a Field Secretary for the following year. After returning to UCLA, he was active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. He authored “US Hegemony Over the Three Worlds,” in How the World Works, A critical Introduction to International Relations, edited by Gary Olson (1984, Scott, Foresman and Company).He then taught high school physics for 20 years. With his son he authored The People’s Physics Book, a textbook for advanced high school physics, freely available on-line, and used in a number of states and some countries outside of the US. Jim Dann lives in Vacaville, CA, and works part-time as an Energy Conservation Consultant to a Sacramento school district. Jim worked diligently on this book until June 14 without letting on that his health was anything but perfect.The first galleys were completed on June 16 when when we learned that Jim had passed away that day. He died of leukemia. Getting this book out was an absolute priority
John Harris (Préface de)

ohn Harris, born in the apartheid world of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1943 was a life-long fighter for equality and civil rights. He joined the SNCC Freedom Summer Project in 1964 and was one of the key young black fighters in the Mississippi Delta area for 15 months.