"A Pivotal Moment That Helped Fracture the Civil Rights Movement’s Tenuous Unity and Spur Black Political Radicalism"

"The black radical politics of the 1960s and subsequent decades had roots long before 1964. But it was amplified by the events of that summer, precisely at the moment when a new generation of young activists and intellectuals like Carmichael were coming into their own, and those events sent them in a direction far beyond the nonviolent political vision outlined by King a year earlier during the March on Washington."


Peniel E. Joseph in The New York Times looks back at Freedom Summer.