Category: Freedom Summer
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“The Forgotten One”: Wayne Yancey
We are the survivors of Mississippi but I knew one who did not come back Not one of the murdered the three young men, two Jewish and one Black but the fourth who died that summer of 1964 in a car accident that may or may not have been an accident He is the forgotten…
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Freedom Summer | Volunteer Phil Lapsansky
When I learned that Mr. Phil Lapsansky transitioned, I remembered seeing his application for the Mississippi Summer Project in the F.I.S. Archive. I thought it would be fitting if I began with his.
Diary of a Historian 