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Lessons learned during Freedom Summer and its lasting impact
WASHINGTON ‒ Charles McLaurin initially disagreed with the plan to bring college students ‒ many of them white, many from the North ‒ to Mississippi 60 years ago to help register Black residents to vote. He thought it would do more harm than good. Black …