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‘Freedom Summer’ friends, 50 years later

During the ‘Freedom Summer,’ activists from the North traveled to Mississippi to teach young black teens, in hopes of inspiring change in the segregated South. That’s when Aviva Futorian and Roy DeBerry met, sparking a lifelong friendship.

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  1. Charles Scott says:
    November 4, 2014 at 8:43 PM

    That’s my mother doing her part to clear a path for my future. Thank you Earnestine Evans Scott and everyone took up the cause for change.

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