![]() ![]() They are briefly jailed and their church is burnt to the ground, yet, on their third attempt, they register three voters, a small but significant victory. Dynamic community leader Reverend Singleton is hurled to the floor by the sheriff, who puts a gun to Celeste’s head. Registration at the county office yields the book’s climax. By day, she teaches five children in the black church at night, she prepares adults for voter registration. Celeste must sleep on the floor after the windows are shot up. She stays with Geneva Owens, a dignified, intensely religious widow, in her tumbledown home (there’s an outdoor spigot and an outdoor toilet). Movement headquarters sends Celeste to the small town of Pineyville, scene of a 1959 lynching, near the Louisiana border. ![]() She does so without telling her father Shuck, a prosperous bar owner who fusses over her dangerous mission. ![]() ![]() One of the civil-rights movement’s most iconic projects, Freedom Summer 1964, is revisited in this first novel by an actress who was also a participant.Ĭeleste Tyree is a 19-year-old light-skinned black woman from Detroit who has come to Mississippi as a volunteer. ![]()
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