The Streets of Greenwood
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Documents the efforts of Blacks to achieve the right to vote in Mississippi despite violence and bigotry. Follows the efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to help further registration. Describes the Black drive for freedom against the determination of the white community to keep Greenwood, Miss., as it is. Pictures a white political rally in an open field and a Black freedom festival with folk singer Pete Seeger. Includes interviews with Bob Moses, leader of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, and Greenwood Mayor Charles E. Sampson.
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Documents the efforts of Blacks to achieve the right to vote in Mississippi despite violence and bigotry. Follows the efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to help further registration. Describes the Black drive for freedom against the determination of the white community to keep Greenwood, Miss., as it is. Pictures a white political rally in an open field and a Black freedom festival with folk singer Pete Seeger. Includes interviews with Bob Moses, leader of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, and Greenwood Mayor Charles E. Sampson.
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