<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)"><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">I can't believe I didn't know this. I went to Miami of Ohio. I was even in the Western College Program. But I had no idea the Freedom Summer volunteers were trained there. This is from a website Miami created called, "Stories of Freedom Summer."</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><br></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">"When the administration of the Western College for Women, now a part of Miami University, opened its campus to civil rights activists in 1964, an estimated 700 young and idealistic college students from across the north arrived in Oxford, Ohio for voter registration training.</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Sponsored by a coalition including the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the National Council of Churches, this event is considered by scholars to be one of the pivotal events in civil rights history; one that would eventually reshape the electoral landscape of the United States."</span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">"Representative John Lewis (GA), Representative Barney Frank (MA), Howard Zinn (educator, Boston University), Robert Moses (educator, The Algebra Project), Charles Cobb (journalist and educator), and Fannie Lou Hamer (political activist) are but a few of such individuals who were here that summer."</span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><a href="http://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/longform/freedomsummer/">http://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/longform/freedomsummer/</a><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">I started reading material from the Text & Photo Archive next. The sixth document down is "Appendix, Mississippi Summer Project Running Summary of Incidents." I shivered when I read the seventh and tenth entries. I knew three volunteers had been murdered in Mississippi at the beginning of Freedom Summer but I wan't prepared to come across actual documentation of the unfolding of events. I don't want to keep reading but I need to witness this. Even if it's across space and time. </span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><img src="cid:ii_15b8477d964ff640" alt="Inline image 1" width="510" height="308"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="fon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