The Freedom Summer Murders
by Mitchell, Don
CBC Children's Choice Book AwardAmerican/U.S. HistoryMurderJunior Library Guild SelectionRace & Race RelationsPrejudice & DiscriminationViolence
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AR Book Level
8.2
AR Points
7
Word Count
39,021
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
165763 EN
About this book
This book shares the chilling story of three idealistic young men who were lynched in 1964 by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi as they were trying to register African Americans to vote as part of the Freedom Summer effort to bring democracy to the South.
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