61. “The Civil Rights Movement Part 2: Freedom Summer”
My entire life I heard my Dad say "Freedom isn't free" and perhaps the best application of that is the Civil Rights Movement. It's easy from a place of comfort to not fully understand the risk and sacrifice required for... the right to vote. The right as a black person to have equal and fair access to elections, job protection, education. We are in our own Civil Rights moment now and we can learn a lot from what they didvSources:U.S. Congressional Records, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 1866 (Memphis Massacre testimony)FBI Files on the murders of Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, and the…
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