Description: With contributions from more than 80 participants, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle is one of the most compehensive books ever published about the civil rights movement in Mississippi. The anthology focuses on the critical year of 1964, when civil rights workers were beaten, jailed, and murdered, yet freedom schools were established, thousands registered to vote, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged segregated elections. The participants of Freedom Summer have gracefully aged. Some have died. In this book, their stories are told in an unprecedented array of songs, articles, photographs, and drawings, collectively recounting the fierce battle to bring equal rights to Mississippi. Much of the content is controversial. All of it is riveting, eyewitness history--back cover.
Brief description: SUSIE ERENRICH is a social movement history documentarian who uses the arts for social change. Her career in nonprofit/arts management and community organizing spans more than four decades. She is the editor of The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement After Kent State 1970, Kent & Jackson State 1970-1990, and Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change. Erenrich is also the producer and host of Wasn't That a Time: Stories & Songs That Moved the Nation, a community radio broadcast on WERA. She serves the International Leadership Association as editor of The Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change Corner.