Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution

Author/Contributor(s):	Joseph, Peniel E
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	05/13/2025
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black freedom struggle--a year when America faced a deluge of political strife and violence and emerged transformed. Nineteen sixty-three opened with the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation and ended with America in a state of mourning. Freedom Season shows how the upheavals of 1963 planted the seeds for watershed civil rights legislation and renewed hope in the promise and possibility of freedom"--