June 24 Tip: Listen to Fresh Air radio program about the 50th anniversary of "Freedom Summer"

Listen to Fresh Air radio program about the 50th anniversary of "Freedom Summer"

(The June 24 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/23/324879867/50-years-ago-students-fought-for-black-rights-during-freedom-summer

This summer marks the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a movement to open the polls to blacks in Mississippi and end white supremacy in the state.

Freedom Summer was organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which recruited 700 college students — mostly white students from the North — to come down to Mississippi and help African-Americans register to vote. The organizers, the students and the black people trying to register were all risking their lives — that's how pervasive racism was at the time.

A new documentary about the movement called Freedom Summer airs on PBS Tuesday.