Category: Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer Volunteer Profile: Rev. Harry J. Bowie
The above statement serves as the typical description writers use when introducing Rev. Harry J. Bowie (1935-2006). I was immediately interested in writing about Rev. Bowie because he was a Black Episcopal priest who came down to Mississippi, joining the wave of volunteers participating in Freedom Summer. Although a large number of ministers arrived through…
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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 