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In the summer of 1964, nearly 1,000 college students from across the country traveled to Mississippi to help register Black citizens to vote. For 10 harrowing weeks over what came to be known as Mississippi Freedom Summer, these young people worked with organizers and local African American activists to challenge white supremacist rule. Along the way, they faced hostility, violence, arrest and even murder. We’re marking the 50th anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer with a special roundtable discussion on Public Radio International (PRI) featuring three civil rights icons: Bob Moses (pictured), field director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and director of SNCC’s Mississippi Project; Charlie Cobb, a field secretary for SNCC and a major architect of the Freedom School Program; and Rita Bender, a Freedom Summer organizer and a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Bender is the widow of Mickey Schwerner, who was killed by white supremacists that summer along with fellow activists Andrew Goodman and James Chaney in Neshoba County, Mississippi. ow.ly/A7bXs
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:33:04 +0000

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