Watson, Bruce

Presents a comprehensive history of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and describes the struggle of the immigrant workers which included twenty-three thousand strikers from fifty-one different nations.

In the summer of 1964 more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated Mississippi to register Black voters and educate Black children. On the night they arrived three volunteers disappeared. Moving from Mississippi's squalid sharecroppers' shacks to the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, the United States was torn between its own destructive history and the moral imperative for a just future.

Presents a comprehensive history of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and describes the struggle of the immigrant workers which included twenty-three thousand strikers from fifty-one different nations.

A detailed history of the attempt in 1964 to register African-Americans in Mississippi and the over seven hundred college students from both southern and northern schools who descended upon the state to help in the cause for freedom and civil rights.