He worked for SNCC in Greenwood, Mississippi, during the 1964 Freedom Summer and, after law school, returned to Greenwood in 1972 to work for North Mississippi Rural Legal Services.
By the end of 1964, Freedom Summer, out of 500,000 eligible blacks, Mississippi had only 1,200 new black voters.
Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
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Among many notable veterans of Freedom Summer were Heather Booth, Marshall Ganz, and Mario Savio.
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television movie which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder in the summer of 1964.
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He and Bobs Tusa, the archivist at USM, wrote Faces of Freedom Summer, which was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2001.
Murder in Mississippi, a chronicle of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the lives and deaths of Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman, the three young civil rights workers who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan, which aired on NBC in 1990.