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From WILL - Focus - June 28, 2010

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

With Bruce Watson (Writer, Historian, Journalist)

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Categories: Civil Rights, History, How-to
Tags: history, united states history, civil rights

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