Savage Season
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
by Bruce Watson
—Reviewed by Ellen O’Connell
By late May 1964, more than 700 students had gathered in Oxford, Ohio, to undergo training before descending on Mississippi for the summer. These students were part of a powerful political movement that was gaining momentum, and they wanted to be on the side of justice rather than the law. They were going to the south to fight against segregation, even amid escalating violence that had spread across …
