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Today, we’re rolling out our Freedom Summer 2020 organizing campaign, an echo of the 1964 Freedom Summer voting rights drive that precipitated the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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This summer, the Movement for Black Lives is training and developing nearly 200 organizers in cities like Dallas, Detroit, and Miami. We are mobilizing local organizers and community leaders to fight for electoral justice and build Black political power.

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In 1964, Freedom Summer focused on fighting Black voter suppression in Mississippi, the epicenter of rampant racist attempts to stop Black people from voting — but the ripple effects stretched far beyond the Mississippi Delta.

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