C-SPAN Cities Tour - Jackson: Freedom Summer & Mississippi Civil Rights

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Channel: C-SPAN · 2014 · Education

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Learn about "Freedom Summer" and the movement to promote voter registration and civil rights in Mississippi in the 1960s. Two Jewish Freedom Summer volunteers from New York and an African American activist from Mississippi were abducted, killed, and then buried by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. This incident attracted national media attention to the movement. 

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