![]() ![]() These include the murders of three activists in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June of that summer. ![]() To highlight these dangers, the author cites a number of real-life incidents. There are also dangers for volunteers like Celeste. For example, although "Whites Only" signs have been removed from many bathrooms and drinking fountains, there is still an unspoken understanding that black men, women, and children who use facilities frequented by whites risk being harassed, attacked, or even killed. ![]() The organization's chief goal is to help black voters register to vote in the Deep South, where despite new laws, the specter of segregation and Jim Crow still hangs heavily. Passionate about the Civil Rights Movement, Tyree joins a volunteer group called One Man, One Vote. Nicholas' main character is nineteen-year-old Celeste Tyree, a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Author, activist, and actress Denise Nicholas’s historical fiction, Freshwater Road (2005), is based on her own experiences as a Freedom Rider during the summer of 1964 when civil rights activists from around the country descended on Mississippi to protest segregation and Jim Crow laws. ![]()
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