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Freshwater road

A BRILLIANT DEBUT ABOUT A YOUNG BLACK WOMAN BECOMING A FREEDOM RIDER IN 1964 MISSISSIPPI This vivid, memorable first novel from Denise Nicholas tells the story of a young woman who defies her father to register black voters during the 1964 Freedom Summer. FRESHWATER ROAD is the story of one woman's journey into adulthood via the political and social upheavals of the civil rights movement. Celeste Tyree, a young black college girl, leaves Ann Arbor to go to Poplarville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964 to help found a Freedom School and voter registration project as part of "Freedom Summ.

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