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Civil Rights workers including Fannie Lou Hamer trained at Western College for Women during Freedom Summer, 1964. |
| The Freedom Summer campaign was organized by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee which sent 1,000 young people to Mississippi to register African-Americans voters and to establish "freedom schools." Three of the student participants, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were later murdered. |  |
(photos courtesy of Smith Library of Regional History, photographed by George Hoxie)
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