From Freedom Summer to #ICantBreathe ... The struggle continues. January 15 in Palo Alto.

June 1964. Over 1,000 volunteers head to Mississippi to register black voters. By August, 4 people were dead, 80 beaten, 1,000 arrested, 67 churches, homes and businesses burned or bombed. This is the story of that summer…

Once Mississippi had large numbers of black voters, the calculus of politicians changed, and the system could not survive. Legal segregation came to an end. Ordinary people – sharecroppers, domestic workers, janitors – had stood up, together with their outside student supporters, and changed society.