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Oxford - America to the Ballot Box  is honored to be working with the University of MIssissippi Voter Engagement Roundtable,  Andrew Goodman Foundation UM Chapter , and other campus and community groups, on a March 2024 Votiing Summit that culminatef with a bus trip from Oxford to Philadelphia, MS, site of the murders of Civil Rights Activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and  Michael “Mickey” Schwerner.


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History Channel
April 16, 2021 [updated from Oct. 29,2009

“Freedom Summer” 

Associated Press
June 8, 2023

“Voting activist killed during Freedom Summer in Mississippi believed country should be integrated”

BY GARY FIELDS

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"Eyes on the Prize" – approximately 10 minutes from a longer documentary

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Neshoba  Youth Coalition

Andrew Goodman Foundation 

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rev. December 8 •  2024 

OXFORD TO THE BALLOT BOX

This community-based project was orignially  hosted by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council and made possible through April 2023 in part by a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council with additional support from Students Learn Students Vote and French Connection UK - US  . Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the MHC.

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