National Public Radio recently featured an episode of All Things Considered titled, “Retracing ‘Freedom Summer’ in Mississippi”. This episode was centered around the journey of a busload of teachers is riding Mississippi’s highways, retracing the steps of the Freedom workers in the hope of bringing that history to life for a new generation of students. One of the stops the participants made was in Clarksdale, Miss., home of the People’s Institute’s Freedom Summer event. Listen to the report online at http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3821251.
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