Freedom Summer: A Stage Play about the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project (Civil Rights Arts Project, #2)

In 1964, Wendy Whittaker, a white sophomore from Oberlin College, and Cynthia Moore, an African American junior at Swarthmore College join nearly 1,000 college students joined the Mississippi Summer Project to help African Americans secure their voting rights.

During the orientation session in Ohio, Wendy and Cynthia find themselves immediately having to defend their motives for joining Freedom Summer to the seasoned, and somewhat cynical, battle hardened veterans of the Student Nonviolent C...