Freedom Summer

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• 10/12/2020
  

  My Memories of Voter Suppression

  by Lawrence Wittner

  After witnessing firsthand the depth of struggle needed to secure the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the author says the 2013 Supreme Court decision to gut the VRA and subsequent acts by state governments to suppress the vote "betray the most basic principle of democracy."

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• SOURCE: PBS
  6-24-14
  

  Freedom Summer -- American Experinece (Video)

  American Experience does Freedom Summer.

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• 4-11-14
  

  1964 at 50: Remembering the Mississippi Summer Project

  Hear from the activists who helped change America 50 years ago. Don't miss it!