Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer, was a campaign launched by American civil rights activists in June 1964 to register as many African-American voters as possible in the state o
SNCC advert for the Freedom Summer
A stained glass window honoring the three slain activists in Sage Chapel, Cornell University.
Wisconsin Historical Society archivists described this as "a moving letter fragment by Lipsky (?) describing the violence that is the essence of Mississippi to him"; this letter was probably written by Michael Lipsky, who was assigned to the Freedom House at Holly Springs
Mt. Zion Church state history marker near Philadelphia, Mississippi
Edgar Ray Killen
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Edgar Ray Killen was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the F
Freedom Summer
…Clarion-Ledger), high school teacher Barry Bradford, and three of his students from Illinois (Brittany Saltiel, Sarah Siegel, and Allison Nichols), Edgar Ray Killen, one of the leaders of the killings and a former Ku Klux Klan klavern recruiter, was indicted for murder. He was convicted of three counts of manslaughter…
Booking photo, late 1964
The entrance of Mississippi State Penitentiary, where Killen was incarcerated