E-mail a friendJune 22, 2005
In an exclusive conversation, David Dennis, a civil rights worker in Mississippi during "Freedom Summer," ponders the impact of the Killen trial guilty verdict and his work in education.
David Dennis
David Dennis
In the 'Freedom Summer' of '64, David Dennis was working for voter rights as a Mississippi field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality. But for an illness, he would have been with James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner - three civil rights workers who were killed that June. Still making a difference, Dennis works with the Algebra Project, which provides teacher training to help inner-city and rural students achieve mathematics literacy. He says education is the next civil rights frontier.
