Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Freedom Summer

In my opinion, "Freedom Summer" is a great book, and deals with the civil rights of African Americans. I believe that everyone, not just African Americans should have equal civil rights. In this book, as African Americans tried to gain equal civil rights, they also went through many hard times. Many African Americans were scared to attempt for equal civil rights because of the fact that they did not want to take a chance of getting there family hurt or even killed. African Americans weren't the only people fighting for civil rights neither. Caucasians were also helping the African Americans fight for civil rights. Well some Caucasians. Many Caucasians were punished if found to be helping African Americans. In my opinion, this alone helped bring some African Americans and Caucasians together.

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  1. Why do you think that these activists felt strongly enough about exercising the right to vote that they took such enormous risks with their lives and their well-being? Similarly, why do we see so many white Southerners unwilling to take these same risks?

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