This week, a class about efforts in the early 1960s to register African-American voters in Mississippi.

Professor Carol Anderson of Emory University explains.

And remember, so much of the power of the South was predicated on disfranchisement.

Massive disfranchisement.

This is why you have the power of the Southern Democrats in Congress.

She also described some of the movement leaders, their tactics, and the opposition they face from segregationists.

So, as you know, on Monday, we ended with the freedom rides.

And those freedom riders were being funneled into parchment prison as a way to try to hush them up.

To hush them up quietly without the cameras rolling.

Because remember, that visual image was absolutely essential for movement, to be able to see the violence of Jim Crow.

But that didn't mean that this moment was over.

And Bobby Kennedy knew it and Jack Kennedy knew it.

So Jack Kennedy is giving his state of the union address.

And President Kennedy is all, we are fighting for democracy and freedom and there is an opportunity for what is

happening here on the globe because we have all of these people it was the middle of decolonization

Africans Asians Arabs Latinos those nations are becoming getting free.

Imperial bonds are loosening and he sees this as an incredible moment for freedom in the global South.

But he didn't mention the American South in this freedom struggle.

That kind of silence there.

But he needed that silence because what he was dealing with, he had just come back

from that Vienna summit. Remember the one that his brother was really trying to get the

Freedom Riders to quiet out on? And, well, that Vienna Summit didn't go so well. He met with

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