ellas song. because its been in my heart everyday since august 9th and now im spilling over with it. and dont care to be vain and try for a perfect recording. sometimes it just has to be. as it is. amen. Ella Baker was deeply involved in the SNCC Voter Registration initiative of the Freedom Summer of 1964. From the biography on the Ella Baker School website: ‘Large numbers of white college students volunteered for Freedom Summer. Unfortunately, shortly after their arrival two students from New York, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered, along with James Chaney of Mississippi. It riveted the nation’s media attention. Most Americans learned for the first time what was going on in that state. Ella Baker was asked her reaction. “The unfortunate thing is that it took this…to make the rest of the country turn its eyes on the fact that there were other (black) bodies lying in the swamps of Mississippi. Until the killing of a black mother’s son becomes as important as the killing of a white mother’s son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest.”
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:01:19 +0000
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