• When It Comes to Voting, Freedom Summer Wasn’t a One-Time Event

    In January my father retraced steps he took 50 years ago in Hattiesburg, Miss. As a teenager in 1964, he had locked arms with men and women of goodwill seeking the most sacred and elusive right of citizenship: the vote. Later that year, Mississippi would become the site of the extraordinary Freedom Summer, when students…

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