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Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer: When civil rights activists shed blood to protest voter discrimination
The civil rights movement by the mid-1960s had made significant strides in attaining racial equality and social justice but there was still voter discrimination at the polls, particularly in the South. The Freedom Riders had had their historic bus rides in the Jim Crow states. Martin Luther King Jr. had given his famous speech, “I…
