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Aug 2024
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The long aftermath of the Freedom Summer...

THE WASHINGTON POST
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During a 1964 effort to register Black people to vote, known as Freedom Summer, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Miss. In this special “Post Reports” episode, residents discuss the painful legacy. 
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