September 26, 2012
During the summer of 1964, poll taxes, voter ID laws and death threats prevented people from exercising their right to vote.
The Freedom Summer Campaign, a group made up mostly of students, traveled to Mississippi in 1964 to register as many African American voters as possible.
The campaign...
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