Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer
Davis W. Houck, "Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer "
English | ISBN: 149684078X | 2022 | 170 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 149684078X | 2022 | 170 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events―especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner―stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the history but also the public memory of the Mississippi Summer Project.
Beginning in the late 1970s, however, movement veterans challenged this central narrative with the shocking claim that during the search for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner, the FBI and other law enforcement personnel discovered many unidentified Black bodies in Mississippi’s swamps, rivers, and bayous. This claim has evolved in subsequent years as activists, journalists, filmmakers, and scholars have continued to repeat it, and the number of supposed Black bodies―never identified―has grown from five to more than two dozen.
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