Remembering Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer volunteers canvass a Mississippi neighborhood to help register black voters. (Photo by Ted Polumbaum, courtesy of the Newseum)

UChicago alumni recount the transformative events of 1964.

Susie Allen, AB’09

University of Chicago News Office

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08.11.2014

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Remembering “Freedom Summer” http://www.uchicago.edu/features/remembering_freedom_summer/

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