In the summer of 1964, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a highly publicized campaign to register voters in the Deep South. Thousands of civil rights workers, many of them white college students from the north, joined the mission, which was known as Freedom Summer. Michael Schwerner, a white New Yorker working with CORE, traveled to […]

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