Needless to say these murders would hit home for the volunteers for Freedom Summer.
The structure of the civil rights movement remained after Freedom Summer.
Further investigation of the Mississippi civil rights workers murders during Freedom Summer finally led to another trial in 2005.
Ickes was a student civil rights activist in the 1960s and took part in Freedom Summer.
George was the project director for the Freedom Summer in 1964 and remained in charge in the following years.
It was Freedom Summer, when hundreds of college students went south to register blacks to vote.
Ten Freedom Summers received universal acclaim from contemporary music critics.
They were murdered on the first day of Freedom Summer.
As they look back 30 years to what was called Freedom Summer, their testimony adds a complex layer to the film.
In 1964, civil rights workers, primarily from Northern states, launched Freedom Summer.