[Lekooks] Freedom Summer

[Liz Kreml]

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."

"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.

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."

"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."

http://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/longform/freedomsummer/

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.


[image: Inline image 1]

http://digital.lib.miamioh.edu/cdm/search/collection/fstxt

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I thought some of you might like to look around this archive too.​

Liz​
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