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A Small Town Rises - by Lee Anna Sherman (Paperback)

A Small Town Rises - by  Lee Anna Sherman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"A story of daring in a time of great danger ... of two unknown heroes working for justice."--Dennis Flannigan, Washington State Representative, 2002-2010</p><p>Part biography, part history, part love story, <em>A Small Town Rises</em> chronicles the lives of two civil rights activists who met in the tiny cotton town of Shaw at the tail end of the Mississippi Summer Project, the voting-rights campaign known as Freedom Summer. Shaw was, like countless segregated towns across the South, a pressure cooker of violent white resistance to the growing civil rights movement.</p><p>The two young freedom fighters--sharecropper Eddie Short and recent college grad Mary Sue Gellatly--joined forces in 1964 with local black activist Andrew Hawkins and a host of courageous townspeople to challenge and disrupt the status quo in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Their struggle brought triumph and tragedy to Shaw in equal measure.</p>

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