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S4 E7: Freedom Summer

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The Summer Project in Mississippi

Hollis watkins grew up in lincoln county, mississippi. He was one of the first in the state to join snick in 19 61, when he was 19. Hollis said what he cared most about was the painstaking work that civil rights workers were doing with black mississippians themselves. "I saw people who had begun to take initiative for themselves and acting on those decisions that they made"

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