Download or read book Mississippi to Madrid written by James Yates and published by Open Hand Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his birth to a sharecropper family in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the unrest in Chicago and New York during the Depression, James Yates' experience with labor protest and union organizing shaped his vision of freedom and led to his decision to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.