Where registering to vote could get you killed…and how this story relates to 2020, by Laura Dull

          Bruce Watson starts his book, Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, with the murder of Herbert Lee, a black farmer who dared to vote: “Blacks did not vote in Mississippi–never had as long as anyone could remember…Seventy-some years had passed […]