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S4 E7: Freedom Summer

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Democracy in America - The Land That Never Was Yet

This is season four, episode seven in our series on democracy in america. We took apart the radio documentary i made in the nineties and up dated it for this season. Using the interviews that my co producer, kate cavitt, and i corded back then, deep into the twentieth century,. The struggle was still very much on for something resembling a multi racial democracy in the usa. Struggle led by black Americaans and their accomplices of all shades. What did those young people accomplish that summer? And in what they failed to achieve? What hard truths about the united states did they uncover? Yet again, get on bordon? Nobody called it freedom summer until after it

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