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Spies of Mississippi: Training for Three Things
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Spies of Mississippi, we learn about the training civil rights activists from the north went through in Ohio for the 1964 Summer Project, to prepare themselves “to be beaten, to be put in jail, and to be killed.”
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