Eyes Have Seen: From Mississippi to Montreal

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Eyes Have Seen: From Mississippi to Montreal
Abstract
At the age of fifteen, Fred Anderson left home and was sucked into the maelstrom of the U.S. southern civil rights movement. He became active with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and other civil rights organizations, working with some of the well-known leaders including John Lewis, Bob Moses, Stokely Carmichael, Fannie Lou Hamer and more. As the movement voiced opposition to the Vietnam War and support for liberation movements in Africa and other Third World countries, including Palestine, the FBI targeted it, while military draft boards systemically and disproportionately inducted social activists and poor Blacks, including Fred Anderson. When he refused to go to war, he chose ‘Flight to Canada,’ where he became Clifford Gaston in Montreal, the name he went by until the amnesty granted draft dodgers in 1977.
Date
2025
Publisher
Baraka Books
Place
Montreal
# of Pages
220p.
ISBN
978-1-77186-378-0
Language
en
Citation
Anderson, Fred. Eyes Have Seen: From Mississippi to Montreal. Montreal: Baraka Books, 2025.
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