The Mississippi Summer Project, a.k.a. Freedom Summer
(Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer testifying at the DNC in Atlantic City in August of 1964.)
Fresh Air recently re-ran a segment featuring “Freedom Summer,”
“Good White People” and the Failure of Our Imaginations
As a white woman from the South who writes novels that attempt to debunk some of the falsehoods of white, Southern nostalgia,