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Freedom Summer: Before Freedom

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“Before Freedom Summer and the changes it jump-started, Mississippi was a place where a black body floating in a muddy river was as common as a snake.” (Pg. 10) Freedom Summer embodied the spirt of change; change that needed to take place, not in Mississippi alone, but in all of America! Blacks were terrorized and taught to “stay in their place” for far too long, which deprived them of actual life as America’s concerns focused on an “unbearable whiteness of being.” (Pg 5) Had Freedom Summer not have occurred, we would still be lost as a society focusing on color and differences rather than decency and brotherhood of all people. “Mississippi changed everything for anyone who was there.” (Pg 13) Mississippi in 1963, was a land for barbarians
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