50 Years Later, We Need A New 'Freedom Summer' | WGBH News
By August, Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner’s bodies were discovered in a shallow grave, and the nation witnessed the horror of anti-segregationist anger. Much more would occur before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law in 1965. Voting rights are once again a political hot button issue since a Supreme Court ruling last year, which eliminated a major portion of that ‘65 law.
Now, young people inspired by the Freedom Summer volunteers are leading legal and grass roots battles to stop the effort to undercut voting rights.
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