Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 – 50th Anniversary

This week on From the Vault, the Pacifica Radio Archives celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 with newly discovered and restored broadcasts. We will present the best of these recordings – primarily the voices from those involved in the voter registration movement in the Mississippi Delta Region in the early 1960’s. In a program called The Mississippi Delta, from January of 1964, we’ll hear about the incredible effort and sacrifices made to register African Americans to vote in a region where they had been historically disenfranchised, and also hear from people that tried their best to prevent this from happening.

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