Freedom Summer was organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, which recruited 700 college students — mostly white students from the North — to travel to Mississippi and help African-Americans register to vote. The organizers, the students and the black people trying to register were all risking their lives, a measure of how pervasive racism was at the time. A new documentary about the movement, called Freedom Summer, airs on PBS Tuesday...
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 02:17:45 +0000