Before Selma, there was Freedom Summer, a 10-week voter registration campaign that would change America forever. In 1964, when civil rights activists devised a daring plan to force change, Black Mississippians had already endured nearly 100 years of Jim Crow. From mid-June through August, hundreds of volunteers descended on Mississippi, turning the nation's attention to the legalized injustice occurring across the South. The summer was a complex mixture of vision, political maneuvering, bigotry, brutality, and bravery, and although that protest permanently changed America, voting issues persist to this day.

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