Oh Freedom Over Me

More than 40 years after the fact, an ugly chapter in U.S. race relations--long thought closed--has reopened. A 79-year-old preacher named Edgar Ray Killen pleaded not guilty Friday to the infamous 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner had been in Mississippi that year to register black people to vote--part of a remarkable moment in the Civil Rights Movement that came to be known as Freedom Summer. This American RadioWorks documentary tells the story of Freedom Summer.