Hope's kids : a voting rights summer /
Venable, Alan,
Hope's kids : a voting rights summer / [print] Alan Venable. - San Francisco : One Monkey Books, (c)2017. - 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Gone to Carolina -- Richland -- Kershaw -- Calhoun -- Change gon' come -- Companions, friends, helpers.
"Spring 1965. In the wake of Selma, a bill is finally wending through Congress to end the rigged literacy tests and other devices in place since Reconstruction to keep southern blacks out of voting and government. At the same time, Dr. King's non-violent "wild man" Hosea Williams is laying the groundwork for hundreds of students to canvass the south in a summer voting rights project called SCOPE. Two dozen sign up at Brandeis, a vibrant young Boston area college, to work in South Carolina."--From the cover.
9781940722023
Civil rights movements--History--South Carolina--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--South Carolina--20th century.
E185.V447.H674 2017 E185
Hope's kids : a voting rights summer / [print] Alan Venable. - San Francisco : One Monkey Books, (c)2017. - 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Gone to Carolina -- Richland -- Kershaw -- Calhoun -- Change gon' come -- Companions, friends, helpers.
"Spring 1965. In the wake of Selma, a bill is finally wending through Congress to end the rigged literacy tests and other devices in place since Reconstruction to keep southern blacks out of voting and government. At the same time, Dr. King's non-violent "wild man" Hosea Williams is laying the groundwork for hundreds of students to canvass the south in a summer voting rights project called SCOPE. Two dozen sign up at Brandeis, a vibrant young Boston area college, to work in South Carolina."--From the cover.
9781940722023
Civil rights movements--History--South Carolina--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--South Carolina--20th century.
E185.V447.H674 2017 E185