Staughton Lynd served as the Director of the Freedom School Program during the 1964 Freedom Summer Project. The Lynds discussed: planning for the Freedom School program; Moses' impact on the summer volunteers in Oxford, Ohio training sessions for the Summer Project; SNCC staff dynamics; successful elements of the Freedom School program; Moses' opposition to the Vietnam War and his ability to connect it with Mississippi; the development of the Assembly of Underrepresented People; the liberal-left split inside the civil rights movement; the issue of movement "burnout".
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