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Love letter from Pig : my brother's story of Freedom Summer / Julie Kabat.

"In the summer of 1964, the FBI found the smoldering remains of the station wagon that James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman had been driving before their disappearance. Shortly after this awful discovery, Julie Kabat's beloved brother Luke arrived as a volunteer for the Miss...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kabat, Julie (Author)
Other title:My brother's story of Freedom Summer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Subjects:
Kabat, Luke.
Mississippi Freedom Project > Biography.
Mississippi Freedom Project
African Americans > Suffrage > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Mississippi.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
African Americans
African Americans > Suffrage
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Race relations
Mississippi
1900-1999
Biographies
History
Table of Contents:
  • Letter and preface
  • 1. A test of family values
  • 2. Recruitment and orientation
  • 3. A Jewish thread
  • 4. A moral compass
  • 5. Meridian
  • 6. Early days
  • 7. Freedom School teacher
  • 8. Project building blocks
  • 9. Nonviolence 1
  • 10. A world of song
  • 11. In McCarthy's shadow
  • 12. In the news
  • 13. Grief
  • 14. Persistence
  • 15. Mystery untangled and transition
  • 16. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party on the national stage
  • 17. . Respite and new beginnings
  • 18. Return to Meridian
  • 19. Jail
  • 20. Contribution to the delinquency of minors
  • 21. Close quarters
  • 22. Bitter pill
  • 23. Nonviolence 2
  • 24. Brief interlude
  • 25. A period of turmoil
  • 26. Segregation up North and lessons learned
  • 27. On violence and hate, of love and freedom
  • 28. Crossing the threshold
  • Afterword
  • Author's note: Toward a more perfect union
  • Acknowledgments: A story behind the story
  • Resources
  • Index.

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