The Freedom Summer was a 1964 campaign in Mississippi to increase black voter registration. Adversaries resisted the movement with malevolence and violence. Today at noon, Krys Boyd will speak to historian , author of American Experience: Freedom Summer, about the effort 50 years ago.
is a month-long storytelling series on 四虎影院 with insight into the discrimination that took place in the '60s and still continues today.
NPR recounts to handle segregationists' vicious opposition to the registration endeavor.
History explains further and provides videos and speeches from the Civil Rights Movement.
A is open to the public at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at 四虎影院 (3000 Harry Hines Blvd in Dallas). Patrons can register for the event, which will feature clips from the public television documentary, a panel discussion and an opening reception, online until an hour before it begins.
Freedom Summer, the documentary based on Watson's book, on 四虎影院-TV.
http://youtu.be/iz0GpAB0Uf0
