Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hello and Happy Friday, I'm Tracey V Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.

One of our episodes this week was about Mississippi Freedom Summer.

We mentioned a couple of times in the episode, the podcast, scene on radio and their series

The Land That Has Never Been Yet in their episode on Freedom Summer.

Anyway, I didn't mention, but which I watched as part of the research and background into

all of this was the Freedom Summer documentary that came out in 2014 and was aired on PBS

American Experience.

You can currently watch it on the PBS website.

That has a lot of interviews with people who were involved and archival footage from the

time.

I heard that phone call between Johnson and Hoover about Rita Schwerner.

One of the things that was really striking to me about this particular documentary is

it reinforced how young everyone was.

Because this took place in 1964, a lot of the volunteers were in their early 20s, a lot

of the organizers were maybe into their later 20s.

So people were doing these interviews when they were in their 60s.

Everybody looked really young except for Pete Seeger who was also a little bit of

interview because of his work with music during the Civil Rights Movement and Pete Seeger

looked ancient.

He was significantly older than a lot of the other people interviewed, but it was just

this huge contrast of like number one, reminding me of how recent this was and how young

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