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Introduction to My Freedom Summer Journals As a journalist, educator and life-long film critic, I have been fighting this particular battle for truth over many decades. My own experience in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer eventually reached a national audience because I was among the outspoken critics of the 1988 thriller, Mississippi Burning, starring Gene Hackman …
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For this 60th anniversary, the veteran film critic and author shares with us his journals from the historic Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
At he end of Roger’s and my first day in Shaw I describe our Shaw “home” and part of our second day there. Monday, Aug. 10 I must describe “home.” It is a lovely old white – or once was–a wooden structure. The lumber must have been milled in Reconstruction days judging by the appearance of it. The front porch …
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I’m still trying to record the happenings of the first day in Shaw! Note that current reflections/comments are in blue print. After we arrived, we were taken to the one house where baths are available – once a week. While a couple of the men were bathing,we sat around and got acquainted. Doug Mann is …
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The following excerpt from my journal describes a portion of our arrival in Shaw, MS, and first impressions–on Thursday, August 6, 1964. Our trip from Jackson to Shaw was uneventful. (Unlike the experience of a group of volunteers who were shot at on the same road two days before!) Warren warned us, “Remember, you will be in enemy territory. …
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