Freedom Summer: The Revolutionary Movement to Register Voters
Sometimes a look into the past helps us to understand what's happening now
On June 24th, 1964 the state of Mississippi was “invaded” by an army of young women and men looking to “stir up trouble”. They crossed the state lines with the sole intent of shaking up the status quo and doing it in a way that would change the trajectory of history forever. Their plan to make this happen was a simple, but ambitious, one. They wanted to…
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