Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (2022)

S26E6 Freedom Summer

During the sweltering summer of 1964, student volunteers from across the nation poured into Mississippi to stand alongside local civil rights activists in a massive voter registration drive. At the time, intimidation and deliberately confusing literacy tests kept fewer than seven percent of the state’s African-American citizens from registering to vote. Beyond the registration push, activists established Freedom Schools to teach children about African-American history and culture. They also formed a separate, integrated Democratic Party to challenge Mississippi’s all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, demanding real representation.