Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Movement was far from declaring victory. The experiences of the 1964 Freedom Summer demonstrated that a legal foundation for African American civil rights may have been a necessary condition but it was hardly sufficient to ensure a peaceful transition to full social and civic equality.
Jack Landron, a young musician well known to Boston-area audiences for his performances as Jackie Washington at Club 47 in Harvard Square, remembers his journey to Mississippi during the Freedom Summer. What did his lived experience of the Civil Rights Movement mean to this 26-year-old musician from Roxbury?
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