Freedom Summer 2

"Similarly, the traditional sexual double stand-alive and well in mid-sixties America-made a young woman's involvement in an unchaperoned project, such as Freedom Summer, much more problematic than it was for a young man." P. 58

"The Freedom Schools were an effort to counter the obcious inequities and insidious political messages inherent in this system." P. 83

"They were not so much color-blind as supremely desirous of appearing color-blind. The project staff too had been exposed to American racism since birth. But their nightmare experiences in Mississippi during the previous three years had moved them well byond the attitudes embraced by the volunteers." P. 103