60th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, my journals, part 4

This time in Part 8 of my Journal I start by mentioning our failure to draw students for a Freedom School–not everthing was successful– and then move on to describe our meeting with the most striking person that I have ever met, Fanny Lou Hamer. It was at a Freedom Rally in Cleveland, the county …

60th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, my journals, part 3

Freedom Summer took place 60 years ago, but my memories of my experience in what semed like a different country are bolstered by the extensive journal entries I wrote  at the end of each hot day. Last week I covered our arrival at the little town of Shaw up in the Mississippi delta, the 3-room …

MEDGAR & MYRLIE

I have just finished reading Joy-Ann Reid’s new book  MEDGAR & MYRLIE: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America–and can highly recommend it. I had known of the martyred NAACP leader even before I  joined the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project way back in 1964. The three films in which he is portrayed greatly enhanced my …

TILL (2022)

The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in MS in 1955 sparks outrage leading to the C-R Movement, thanks to his determined mother Mamie.