{"product_id":"hopes-kids-a-voting-rights-summer-9781940722023","title":"Hope's Kids: A Voting Rights Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpring 1965. In the wake of Selma, a bill is finally wending through Congress to end the rigged literacy tests and other devices in place since Reconstruction to keep southern blacks out of voting and government. At the same time, Dr. King's non-violent \"wild man\" Hosea Williams is laying the groundwork for hundreds of students to canvass the south in a summer voting rights project called SCOPE. Two dozen sign up at Brandeis, a vibrant young Boston area college, to work in South Carolina. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate June. The \u003cem\u003eVoting Rights Bill\u003c\/em\u003e still hung up in Congress, the Brandeis SCOPErs arrive in urban Richland County, soon spreading out to hinterlands in adjoining Kershaw and Calhoun Counties. In each place they confront a powerful mix of intimidation, persisting sanctioned segregation and astonishing poverty. Sheltered in black homes, they place themselves in the service of local leaders in a century's struggle for equal rights. To the kids from Boston, it will be scary, surprising, inspiring, complex; above all rewarding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVenable, Alan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Alan Venable was a member of the Brandeis University chapter of SCLC's 1965 voting rights project, SCOPE. A native of Pittsburgh, he lives in San Francisco.","brand":"One Monkey Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50446784233746,"sku":"9781940722023","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_814e83fe-4d6b-4407-9f49-5b7ba34d6cb8.jpg?v=1729710699","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hopes-kids-a-voting-rights-summer-9781940722023","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}