Judith Rosenbaum on Freedom Summer Letters

This Week in History: On August 12, 1964, Freedom Summer volunteers Ellen, Bonnie, Heather and Sylvie wrote letters home describing their mixed hope and anxiety as their civil rights efforts in Mississippi were met with violent opposition. Judith Rosenbaum describes the profound, lifelong effect that summer had on the volunteers.

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