Winning Freedom With A Bloody Summer

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer. We’ll look back this hour at the effort to register black voters in Mississippi with historian Bruce Watson. His book serves as the source material for the documentary American Experience: Freedom Summer, which airs this month on KERA-TV.

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