{"id":40574,"date":"2014-06-27T09:52:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T16:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40574"},"modified":"2014-06-27T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T16:52:41","slug":"rare-recordings-from-pacifica-provide-glimpse-of-mississippi-freedom-summer-50-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/06\/27\/rare-recordings-from-pacifica-provide-glimpse-of-mississippi-freedom-summer-50-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Recordings from Pacifica Provide Glimpse of Mississippi Freedom Summer, 50 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140627Uprising\/2014_06_27_freedom_summer.mp3\">Listen to this segment with archival Pacifica recordings <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140627Uprising\/2014_06_27_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/freedom_summer.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>It was 50 years ago this summer that the Mississippi Freedom Summer project was launched by a number of civil rights organizations including the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, the Congress of Racial Equality, the NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, all of which were part of the e Council of Federated Organizations, known by its acronym COFO. Their goal: to register as many African American voters as they could in the state of Mississippi. Before the project less than 10% of Mississippi&#8217;s African Americans were registered to vote \u2013 the lowest in the nation. <\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Freedom Summer project was years in the making and involved over a thousand students from outside Mississippi coming into the state. On June 21, 1964, just as the project began, three men who were volunteering to register people, James Chaney, a black CORE activist from Mississippi, and Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, two white Jewish activists from New York, were arrested by a white deputy sheriff who was also a member of the Klan. They were abducted and killed in one of the worst instances of violence marking the civil rights movement. <\/p>\n<p>On the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, we share with you a series of excerpts from some incredible and rare documentaries made by Pacifica reporters who were at the scene. These tapes are newly recovered and preserved. <\/p>\n<p>First we&#8217;ll hear excerpts from a 2 part documentary by acclaimed, award winning Pacifica reporter, Dale Minor called Mississippi Delta, which sets the stage for how poorly African Americans were treated in Mississippi. Then, we&#8217;ll hear the voices of organizers of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and finally, we&#8217;ll hear about the three project workers who were killed. <\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificaradioarchives.org\">Pacifica Radio Archives<\/a> for these recordings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 50 years ago this summer that the Mississippi Freedom Summer project was launched by a number of civil rights organizations including the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, the Congress of Racial Equality, the NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, all of which were part of the e Council of Federated Organizations, known by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40583,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40574\/revisions\/40583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}