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Author: Taylor Streit

A Small Town Rises: A Sharecropper and a College Girl Join the Struggle for Justice in Shaw, Mississippi BISAC-MED012000 even guilt"A story of daring in a time of great danger of two unknown heroes working for justice." Dennis Flannigan, Washington State Representative, 2002 2010 Part biography, part history, part love story, A Small Town Rises chronicles the lives of two civil rights activists who met in the tiny cotton town of Shaw at the tail end of the Mississippi Summer Project, the voting rights campaign known as Freedom Summer. Shaw was, like countless segregated towns