SIGNED - THE SUMMER THAT DIDN'T END - Len Holt, 1st 1965 - CIVIL RIGHTS, SOUTH

THE SUMMER THAT DIDN'T END - THE STORY OF THE MISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT OF 1964 AND ITS CHALLENGE TO THE FUTURE OF AMERICABook Details + Condition: William Morrow and Company (New York). First Edition, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. 351 pages. Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper. The inscription reads: "To my Ben and Jerry, whose love has sustained me through the seasons of crisis. Len Holt, May 1965". Holt was active in the Civil Rights movement, working as a field secretary for CORE. A member of the National Lawyers Guild, Holt served as a defender for protestors arrested for their participation in civil rights demonstrations throughout the South. He authored two books in the 1960s about his experiences in the South during the Civil Rights movement, The Summer That Didn't End and An Act of Conscience. From the Introduction: "While in Mississippi in June, as the world became aware of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964, several of us expressed concern