Dedicated to the Proposition: Freedom Summer
Wednesday, January 14 2009
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Freedom Summer
Bob Moses                   Â
Wally Roberts
In 1964, Bob Moses led an effort to bring 1000 mostly-white volunteers to Mississippi. Their job was to register African American voters and teach them about their civil rights through "freedom schools." Just before the project began, three volunteers disappeared - and were later found dead. Bob and one of the volunteers, Wally Roberts, talk to Dick Gordon what that summer meant to them.
- Hear a speech that inspired both Bob and Wally, Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony at the 1964 Atlantic City Democratic National Convention
- Learn about the organization Bob founded, The Algebra Project
- See a photo of a protest in Mississippi that Wally helped organize
Reflections on Old Mississippi
Bill Ready
When Barack Obama won the presidential election, 75-year-old Bill Ready danced a jig. More than most people, Bill knows how far this country has come in electing a black man as president. He talks with Dick about the years he spent as a civil rights lawyer in Mississippi, back when lynchings were so common, Bill felt it necessary to carry a gun.
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