S4 E7: Freedom Summer
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The Legacy of Freedom Summer
In the process of that really contentious convention, the d and c offers the mississippi freedom democrats this compromise. It winds up becoming kind of institutionalized in 72 when they create like this mcgovern fraser commission to figure out to look at sort of contentious moments like that. And once that stuff is institutionalized, it paves the way for the dislike, un cedented increase of black elected officials at the local level, some of the national level, judges, et cetera. So it's really, it's a really powerful legacy of the mississ Mississippi freedom democrats.
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