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Deep in our hearts

"These compelling first-person accounts take us back to one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation's history - to the early days of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Albany Freedom Ride, voter registration drives and lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the 1964 Democratic Convention, and the rise of Black Power and the women's movement."—BOOK JACKET.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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