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S4E1: June Johnson & the Mississippi Freedom Movement

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"I didn't care what happened to me. I was going to be free or continue to be a part of a struggle to fight for the freedom of people of this country."

June Johnson was a Black civil rights organizer in Greenwood, Mississippi with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and when she was 16 years old, she was arrested and endured horrific treatment in a jail in Montgomery County, Mississippi. June's name is one that gets overshadowed when discussions about the civil rights movement occur, but she was critical in Mississippi's Freedom Movement.

In this episode you will learn about June Johnson, the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, what is was like living in the Mississippi Delta, what happened to June, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others the summer of 1963, SNCC, connections to other well-known civil rights movement events, and why/how this all matters today as we continue to fight for racial justice, protest police brutality, scream "Black Lives Matter", and continue to educate about antiracism's critical role in dismantling racism and white supremacy.
Learn more & get extra educational info over on my Patreon!

Follow me on Instagram @sincerely.lettie

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"I didn't care what happened to me. I was going to be free or continue to be a part of a struggle to fight for the freedom of people of this country."

June Johnson was a Black civil rights organizer in Greenwood, Mississippi with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and when she was 16 years old, she was arrested and endured horrific treatment in a jail in Montgomery County, Mississippi. June's name is one that gets overshadowed when discussions about the civil rights movement occur, but she was critical in Mississippi's Freedom Movement.

In this episode you will learn about June Johnson, the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, what is was like living in the Mississippi Delta, what happened to June, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others the summer of 1963, SNCC, connections to other well-known civil rights movement events, and why/how this all matters today as we continue to fight for racial justice, protest police brutality, scream "Black Lives Matter", and continue to educate about antiracism's critical role in dismantling racism and white supremacy.
Learn more & get extra educational info over on my Patreon!

Follow me on Instagram @sincerely.lettie

  continue reading

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