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[https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/remembering-dr-kings-defense-voting-rights by Eunice Hyon Min Rho 16/1/12 ACLU] | [https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/remembering-dr-kings-defense-voting-rights by Eunice Hyon Min Rho 16/1/12 ACLU] | ||
During the summer of 1964, a coalition of civil rights groups and almost a thousand student volunteers converged in Mississippi to register African-American voters. The “Mississippi Summer Project” was met with unrelenting violence: 1,000 arrests, 35 shootings, 30 bombed buildings, 35 burned churches, 80 beatings, and at least six murders. | During the summer of 1964, a coalition of civil rights groups and almost a thousand student volunteers converged in Mississippi to register African-American voters. The “Mississippi Summer Project” was met with unrelenting violence: 1,000 arrests, 35 shootings, 30 bombed buildings, 35 burned churches, 80 beatings, and at least six murders. | ||
=====Martin Luther King: his life and legacy – in pictures===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/apr/04/martin-luther-king-his-life-and-legacy-in-pictures by Sarah Gilbert 4/4/18 The Guardian] | |||
King, front row third from left, listens to a speaker during an assembly at Morehouse College, in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1948. | |||
