Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi Cover:Paperback psycho- logical and spiritual abuse

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Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi Cover:Paperback psycho- logical and spiritual abuseIn 1964, Mississippi civil rights groups banded together to fight Jim Crow laws in a state where only 6. 4 percent of eligible black voters were registered. Testing a bold new strategy, they recruited students from across the United States. That summer these young volunteers defied segregation by living with local black hosts, opening Freedom Schools to educate disenfranchised adults and their children, and canvassing door to door to register voters.