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Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner; Image credit: CBS News July 16, 1964 Dear Mr. Nelson, As you probably already know, there have been many arrests in Greenwood … Tomorrow I expect to be there to picket the jail house. This means almost certain arrest. Yours in freedom, Cephas During the summer of 1964, thousands of young people from across the United States enlisted in the battle for democracy in Mississippi. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and other ...

Freedom Summer Volunteers; Image Credit: Civil Rights Movement Veterans The Freedom Carrier Greenwood, MS July 16, 1964 It is felt that the state of Mississippi has the worst educational system in the entire United States. As degraded as the white education is, the Negro has the worst half of the worst. A need to try to fill the gap was felt. Therefore COFO initiated the idea of Freedom Schools as an attempt to supplement the present system of education. The first Freedom School to be establ...