Ghosts of Greenwood: Dispatches from Freedom Summer by Nikole Hannah-JonesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was a nice follow-up to Freedom Summer. Part memoir, part family history it was brief and personal and felt like a transcript of vital oral history, like saving the recollections of a WWII vet. It emphasized elements of the previous book: how much grief was endured for what seems like so little progress at the time, how LBJ seems to have risen to the occasion, and the challenge to the establishment of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP).
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