![]() ![]() Copious photographs and subnarratives encapsulate a very wide range of contemporary people and events. Song lyrics from the Beatles, Motown and spirituals provide a cultural context. Excerpts from contemporary newspapers, leaflets and brochures brutally expose Ku Klux Klan hatred and detail Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee instructions on how to react to arrest while on a picket line. ![]() In this companion to Countdown (2010) (with returning character Jo Ellen as one of the volunteers), Wiles once again blends a coming-of-age story with pulsating documentary history. When trained volunteers for the Council of Federated Organizations-an amalgam of civil rights groups-flood the town to register black voters and establish schools, their work is met with suspicion and bigotry by whites and fear and welcome by blacks. Raymond, “a colored boy,” is impatient for integration to open the town’s pool, movie theater and baseball field. Twelve-year-old Sunny, who’s white, cannot accept her new stepmother and stepsiblings. Freedom Summer in 1964 Mississippi brings both peaceful protest and violence into the lives of two young people. ![]()
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