Akiva Reads

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

by Bruce Watson

Just a lot of stuff I didn't know or knew only vaguely. Well written; really liked it. The end, which details how they fail to achieve their specific demands but (you could argue) laid the groundwork for change anyway, has given me a lot of food for thought about how society actually goes about changing and the role of activism.