Description
| Publisher: | Scholastic Asia |
| Series: | Guided Reading |
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| Format: | Paperback |
| Author: | Don Mitchell |
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| Guide Reading Level(US): | Z |
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| Lexile: | 1130L |
| Text type: | Non Fiction |
| ISBN: |
9781338115895 |
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To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, this is the first book for young adults to explore the harrowing true story of three civil rights workers slain by the Ku Klux Klan. In June of 1964, three idealistic young men (one black and two white) were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. They were trying to register African Americans to vote as part of the Freedom Summer effort to bring democracy to the South. Their disappearance and murder caused a national uproar and was one of the most significant incidents of the Civil Rights Movement, and contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |