{"product_id":"the-summer-that-didnt-end-9780306804694","title":"The Summer That Didn't End","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the summer of 1964  America suddenly lost its innocence. By October  as a terrible by product of the Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi  there had been fifteen murdersincluding those of the three young civil-rights workers in Neshoba County. The Summer That Didnt End   originally published in 1965  was the first book to tell the full story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Project. Len Holt was a young black lawyer who was involved in the training sessions of the volunteers and personally investigated the lynchings in Neshoba County. He set out to answer the most difficult question evoked by the killings: Why did the federal government offer no protection to the freedom workers? What  indeed  was the role of the federal government in the South? And why did the FBI refuse to aid the investigation until it was too late? But Holt has plenty to say on the positive side of the Project as well. He points to the freedom schools  the white community project  the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party  and how the focus on the state forced the situation in Mississippi to become a part of the national consciousness. Long out of print  this undiscovered classic is a powerful  distressing  yet hopeful book  written with the passion born of life-endangering participation  and thoroughly documented with eight appendices of invaluable source material.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923615416373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0306804697","price":68.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780306804694.jpg?v=1794109568","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-summer-that-didnt-end-9780306804694","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}