Fifty years ago, about 1,000 young volunteers heeded the call to come to Mississippi in what became known as Freedom Summer. They came to support the work of local civil rights organizers and to counter the home-grown terrorism of Jim Crow’s defenders. They came even after the chilling news broke that three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, had gone missing and were presumed murdered in Neshoba County.
In almost half of Mississippi’s 82 counties, the volunteers worked on voter registration drives, taught in freedom schools and helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s historic challenge to the state’s all-white delegation to the 1964 Democratic Party convention.
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