In June of 1964, a concerted effort to register Black voters in Mississippi began. Called the Freedom Summer project, it was organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and involved hundreds of mainly white northern students. Of course, the tens of thousands of Black Americans in the South were risking their lives and livelihoods every day by attending meetings, discussing voter registration, and asserting their full rights as citizens.
It was a key chapter in our nation’s civil rights struggle, and nearly fifty years later, it still reverberates. You might...
