Freedom Summer volunteers went to Mississippi, fanning out across the state, embedding themselves with local families, and setting up Freedom Schools.
Freedom Summer volunteers were aware of the danger involved in going to Mississippi—a danger confirmed early in the summer when three volunteers went missing.
When Dave Dennis gave the eulogy at the funeral of James Chaney—who was killed along with two other civil rights workers in the summer of 1964—he offered an emotional plea.
Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air.
Civil rights work in Mississippi in 1964 was dangerous. Those who had been on the ground in the state for decades knew that well, but some were less aware of what they'd face.Â
