Freshwater Road

Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas is a mesmerizing novel set during Freedom Summer in 1964, when young people from all over America were converging on Mississippi to register black people for the vote. It follows Celeste Tyree, an idealistic, carefully raised black University of Michigan sophomore......more

This novel tells the story of the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi. The story is told from the viewpoint of a female African American college student from Detroit who spends the summer as a volunteer in the Black community of a small Mississippi town organizing a voter registration drive and leadi......more

I did not realize how dangerous the Civil Rights Movement was in Mississippi... this book has opened my eyes to the depth and widespread racism that lay inherent in the South during the 60's - far more intense than history books ever painted it in my mind. Great read.......more

In 1964 Denise Nicholas, while still a student, went to Mississippi as a volunteer for the One Man One Vote Movement. Over 40 years later, she used her experiences as a springboard for the events in this absorbing novel. I started reading it out of respect for the author who I met on a train earlier......more

This book was such a mixed bag for me. There were parts that were wonderfully written, the descriptions of the racism during Freedom Summer, and the fear the volunteers felt seemed very true to me, and therefore was very moving. However there were parts of the book that I was just like blah, blah, b......more