S4 E7: Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer, Mississippi
Missus hamer was severely beaten in a winona, mississippi jail after several people she was with used the whites only rest room and lunch counter at a bus station. As a result, the white owner of the plantation where her family worked as share crop es evicted them. The following year, night riders shot 16 bullets into a house where they thought the hamers were staying, but they weren't there. I waltte to walk with me from june through august, 19 64, freedom summer. Organizers tried to bring america to mississippi.
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