This week on From the Vault, the Pacifica Radio Archives celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 with newly discovered and restored broadcasts. We will present the best of these recordings - primarily the voices from those involved in the voter registration movement in the Mississippi Delta Region in the early 1960's. In a program called The Mississippi Delta, from January of 1964, we'll hear about the incredible effort and sacrifices made to register African Americans to vote in a region where they had been historically disenfranchised, and also hear from people that tried their best to prevent this from happening.
From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the GRAMMY Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration, and past grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners. We also thank our partners and collaborators at the Pop-Up Archive, Amara, Other Minds Archives, George Blood Audio, and the California Audio Visual Preservation Project.
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