Just wanted to make sure I ended on a positive, or at least a hopeful vibe. There have been times before when people thought the worst has arrived and there will be no redemption.  Our cousins went thru the dark days and then had lighter moments. We will too.

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Closing out 2021.  Enjoy your holiday. Come back to visit in 2022!

Our cousins were destined to live miserable lives in the land of the free unless they took bold steps to confront injustice. Black women were at the forefront. They faced the usual threat but made enough noise to make a difference in the lives of people desperate to have a decent life.

People were suffering all over the world from Imperial Power. America was no different. After WWI, an uprising arose. There was a huge pushback for self determination and to get the burden of powerful folks off the back of working folks to make way for a decent life.

Of course, it became much more complicated. 

Our cousins have been fighting for a chance to work for a decent life for a long time. From the end of WWI until the rumblings of the Civil Rights Movement, there was a Leftist Movement. It was a force to bring relief for labor, black and white, and for abolition of Jim Crow.

it was cultural, social and political revolution that laid the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.

I had the radio on in the background. I was enjoying swing era music to match the mood of the times

There was a vibrant communist movement from the 1920s thru the 1940s. Some of our cousins were a part of that movement in their struggle for freedom. Context is paramount. There was no interest in overthrowing the government or the American way of life.

They were just trying to overthrow Jim Crow and all of the nasty conditions that went along with it.

August. The Democratic Convention was held in Atlantic City. The bodies of the Freedom Boys were found. The Freedom Schools were teaching the young and the not so young. And the MFDP demanded that black people to be able vote and to be represented at the national level.

The end of Freedom Summer

Back from a wonderful summer! Now, we continue to look at our cousins who established Freedom Summer in 1964. They broke the strongholds of illiteracy, fear and disenfranchisement. Those roots are at our doorstep where we once again must confront the same challenges.

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Here is an update of what I have up to. I have turned off the computer and enjoyed summer! Summer seems to fly by more quickly with each year, and I wanted to make sure I captured as much as possible before it slips away.

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FREEDOM SUMMER will continue and I will be back soon. Promise.

Behind the Iron Curtain in the state of Mississippi anything could occur. People were cheated, humiliated, abused, starved and killed. Perpetrators were free to do as they wished with impunity.

Then, northern whites came to town and broke all of the rules.

The long hot summer in 1964. Mississippi Summer Project a.k.a Freedom Summer

African Americans were legally blocked out of the political process by 1890. In spite of the some progress made thanks to the northern migration, the south was air tight in the grip of Jim Crow. It proved to be a long, hard and deadly fight to get the ballot into black hands and become a part of the political process. Sound familiar?

It is not theory or conspiracy. It is history, Naked and raw.