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Freedom Summer volunteers canvass a Mississippi neighborhood to help register black voters. (Photo by Ted Polumbaum, courtesy of the Newseum)
Remembering Freedom Summer
UChicago alumni recount the transformative events of 1964.
By
Author
Susie Allen, AB’09
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University of Chicago News Office
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08.11.2014

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

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Under the leadership of Carla D. Hayden, AM’77, PhD’87, a revered institution is connecting Americans with their country through its treasures. Plus: “A Few of Her Favorite Things.”

Peerless

Reflections from John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, on three decades leading the College.

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Love letters from Paris

For 50 years Janet Flanner, EX 1914 (1892–1978), shared her witty, sharp observations of Europe with New Yorker readers.

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