The dangers were even clearer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964, another of the sentinel campaigns of the civil-rights movement.

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Once felt the freedom of the summer breeze blow these trees, the grass matted in her hands, the delights of jam teas and giggles of girls in our uniforms and plimsoles.

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My mother wrote letters to my father in the summer she rode with the Freedom Riders, and you know, I think that even as she might have imagined such a moment, I don't know if she would have believed that it could occur in her lifetime.

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Great Freedom Adventures announces their summer line-up of bike tours through New York and New England.

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"There's just a lot more freedom, " said Summer Thornton, a Chicago designer who mixed bold 1960s fabrics with animal prints in the space she decorated at a show home in Lake Forest, Ill.

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But if she's right, and if Oprah can examine the successes of something like the Algebra Project or Detroit Summer--both built on the model of the freedom schools of the civil rights movement--then perhaps we can move beyond the realm of midday talk shows into something much more substantive: a sustainable movement that will remake our schools for the better.

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He is making an impact because the assorted groups under the Solidarity umbrella and the Freedom Union are in disarray, their coalition having broken up last summer.

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