Marcia Moore: “I think part of the question is how did someone who grew up in a small town in Iowa end up in Mississippi during Freedom Summer?

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Stanley Nelson: “What made Iowans think that this is something that they should participate in? One, you don't have the problems of Mississippi. Two, you might go two years without seeing a black person, at least back in '64. Why does somebody from Iowa decide to go down to Mississippi?”

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Patti Miller : When I saw this brochure on a bulletin board at Drake it was just a simple brochure that said Mississippi Summer Project. And I just looked at that brochure, I took it down, I leafed through it and every bone in my body knew this is something I had to do.

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Marvin Gatch: Somewhere in that first part of the year I learned about Freedom Summer. Somewhere it occurred to me that I should go. 

Moore: “I started reading books like Black Like Me and some of the black authors who talked in their novels about what the black experience in this country was and I just was shocked. I just thought, this can't be, this is my country, these things can't be happening and they were.”