About the Author

Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner is a veteran of the civil rights movement who worked with the citizens of Holmes County, Mississippi, USA from fall 1964 through summer 1969 to achieve racial equality. She has produced two photography exhibitions using reproductions of her original 1960s photographs.

Cheryl Reitan is a university administrator and the editor of the alumni magazine for the University of Minnesota—Duluth, USA. She has published short stories and articles in numerous literary and professional journals

Reviews

" Thunder of Freedom is an informative read that provides important analysis and firsthand accounts of the human rights movement in Mississippi." -- The Griot

"" Thunder of Freedom captures the struggles, the stories, and the spirit of the movement and the community organizing that brought about great change in that time and place. Now is the time to continue the march toward freedom until there is a level playing field for every child in Mississippi and in America."-- Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund" --

""Sue Sojourner's account of her mid-1960s work in Holmes County, Mississippi, is an important, engaging manuscript and one that speaks to a number of significant themes and topics in the scholarship of the civil rights movement." -- Emilye Crosby, Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement" --

"Finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards for memoir" --