the savage season of 1964 that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
In the summer of 1964 more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated Mississippi to register Black voters and educate Black children. On the night they arrived three volunteers disappeared. Moving from Mississippi's squalid sharecroppers' shacks to the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, the United States was torn between its own destructive history and the moral imperative for a just future.
