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Book details

  1. Print length
    214 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    April 3, 2015
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.49 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1941066062
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1941066065
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The year is 1964. Imagine a country where you are a slave. You have no rights. You cannot attend public schools, the public library, restaurants, parks, churches, or movie theaters. You cannot vote or meet and organize with others like yourself who are denied these rights. That country is the United States of America, in the State of Mississippi. You are black. Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer is a first-person account of Charles Prickett, a college student and civil rights activist, who worked during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of1964. This moving account explores rural Mississippi and the black community’s efforts to change the stifling and brutal system of racism that touched every life. The Mississippi Freedom Summer focused on four goals: Freedom Schools tried to fill in the gaps left by a segregated educational system that denied black citizens a quality education. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party tried to give a political voice to disenfranchised black citizens. Black farmers were organized so they could share in federal programs that support agriculture. Voting registration drives tried to register black citizens to vote. All these efforts were met with violent resistance. What emerges is a triumph of democracy, as Mississippi became the state with more black elected public officials than any other state in the U.S.

About the Author

Charles O. Prickett was born in Carbondale, Illinois. He attended Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois for his undergraduate degree in philosophy and math. He earned a Master's Degree from the University of Illinois, attended Syracuse University, earned a J.D. Degree from the University of New Hampshire (Franklin Pierce Law Center), and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Charles has worked many different jobs, from carpenter and plumber and mechanic, to professor and public school teacher. He is currently an attorney in Santa Rosa, California and has been a Pro Tem Judge in Small Claims and Traffic Court for over 30 years.

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Bio of Charles O. Prickett

Dr. Charles O. Prickett is an attorney and a civil rights activist. He participated in the 1963 March on Washington, the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March.

He often relates his experiences in schools, college classes, civic groups, and other public events. He attended the March on Washington, where Dr. King made his famous “I have a Dream” speech before hundreds of thousands on the Capital Mall. He also personally met Dr. King while working on the Selma to Montgomery March. His personal experiences in the civil rights struggle, including the Mississippi Freedom Summer, are riveting and illustrate the difficult and dangerous ongoing struggle for civil rights in our country.

Charles began his activities toward world peace and justice while in high school doing surveys of area businesses to determine if racial discrimination was occurring in his hometown, Carbondale, Illinois. In college he became a member of the local chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and began picketing local business that refused to serve or hire people of color.

His work in the civil rights movement was modeled after the philosophy of Gandhi, that of nonviolent resistance to racism and discrimination. He was drafted and was classified as a non-combatant conscientious objector. He served his alternative service working at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics.

Charles has written a book about his experiences in the civil rights movement, “Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer” (Amazon). This book chronicles the experiences he had as an active participant of the civil rights movement, and includes his memoir of the March on Washington and his involvement on the Selma-Montgomery March.

His book contains nearly 80 pictures, mostly from a movie he helped make with Richard Beymer in 1964, “A Regular Bouquet” (YouTube). This movie contains the only film record of Freedom Schools and voter registration efforts from the Freedom Summer. PBS in their series “Eyes On the Prize”, and “Freedom Summer” have used these images.

He is currently an attorney in Santa Rosa, California, and has been a pro tem judge in small claims and traffic court in California for over thirty years, and has served as a mediator for the Sonoma County Superior Court.

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Product information

Publisher Wordrunner Press
Publication date April 3, 2015
Edition First Edition
Language ‎English
Print length 214 pages
ISBN-10 1941066062
ISBN-13 978-1941066065
Item Weight ‎10.4 ounces
Dimensions 6 x 0.49 x 9 inches
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  • Larry Crocker
    5 out of 5 stars
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    An Insider's Story from the Civil Rights Struggle

    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2015
    Format: Kindle

    This is a first hand and first rate memoir of the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, and, with lesser detail, the civil rights March on Washington of 1963 (King’s “I have a dream” speech), and the Selma-Montgomery March of 1965.

    Not a slick journalistic book, you will find some repetition, but the book has a character no journalist could give it: authenticity. Prickett was a white civil rights worker in the trenches, and he tells the story as only someone could who participated in that transformative struggle for justice.

    It is hard now to imagine that law abiding citizens should have to fear the sheriff for working to register voters, bringing literacy to children and adults, and helping farmers connect to federal farm programs. Prickett and his coworkers, black and white, had every reason to sweat when they saw a deputy. Certainly the sheriff was unconcerned to stop Molotov cocktails from being tossed at their houses and meeting places.

    In short, the book recounts a vital and heroic part of our history by someone who lived it.

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  • Barry Melton
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    This Book Reinvigorated My Sense of Idealism and Purpose

    Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2017
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    In a bittersweet remembrance of a time not so long ago, Charles Prickett lovingly recounts a difficult time in the life of a young actvist filled with aspirational energy and united with a civil rights movement far greater than the sum of its parts. Thank you for this book, Charles, as it served to reinvigorate my sense of youthful idealism and purpose that has been battered quite regularly by the 24-7 news cycle and cynicism that pervades contemporary life.

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  • LJ
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    A real history of the Civil Rights struggle by someone who stood shoulder to shoulder with the oppressed.

    Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2015
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    This is an excellent book told from the perspective of a young man who volunteered to go to Mississippi to register voters, knowing full well he was risking his life. We know the official stories of the major leaders but we don't know the stories of the people on the ground living with the oppressed and sharing both the joy and danger people faced everyday during Freedom Summer. The book also contains solid documentation of the legal and social context of that struggle. The author was there on the ground where real history is made.

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  • ELC
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    A first hand account of the Mississippi Freedom Summer told ...

    Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2015
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    A first hand account of the Mississippi Freedom Summer told by a young college participant. It is vivid and insightful and moving in so many ways. It brings a momentous historical event to life and shows the hardships encountered and the threats and violence along with them. It also shows the struggle for freedom and civil rights in a very personal manner.

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  • Mary Humphries
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    Passed book to other family members to enjoy.

    Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015
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    Well written and factual. Pictures added an extra element. Passed book to other family members to enjoy.

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  • Jeane Slone author historical novels
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    A Real Insider Piece of History

    Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2016
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    This book is written by an attorney who as a young white college student lived in Mississippi. He skillfully transports the reader to Freedom Summer in 1964 helping black people become literate and vote. It was the summer that changed America.

    As a civil rights activist, Charles Prickett met, shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, and marched on the Selma-Montgomery protest.

    The intriguing appendices in the book include Dr. King’s speech, “I Have a Dream”, samples of literacy tests used to keep black citizens from registering to vote in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. There is also the shocking written confession of Horace Barnette on the killing of three civil rights workers in 1964.

    This is a must read for people to would like to be exposed to realistic history.

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  • Amazon Customer
    5 out of 5 stars

    This is a true picture of the Mississippi Freedom Summer

    Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2016
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    I would highly recommend this memoir. The pictures and detailed accounts of the events that unfolded really allowed me to get a small glimpse of a monumental time in our history. The appendices in the back included a literacy test that was designed to prevent black people from registering to vote. I found myself completely wrapped up in this book fearing for the safety of the people involved in the movement. I followed the book up with watching the movie the author spoke about called "A Regular Bouquet." It is a definite must read!

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  • Ignacio Armillas
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    It is written in a deceptively easy style and yet the reader comes to appreciate the ...

    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2015
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    This book tells an intensely personal story by one of those daring freedom fighters that propelled a wave of social change in the country. It is written in a deceptively easy style and yet the reader comes to appreciate the depth of commitment of those young idealists that went South and how non-violence does succeed. A must read if we are to understand the decade of the 60’s and the struggle for equality.

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