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American RadioWorks documentary about Freedom Summer

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LBJ and MLK shake hands on civil rights bill
President Lyndon Johnson (l) shakes hands with clergyman and civil rights leader Martin Luther KIng (c) July 3, 1964 in Washington DC, after handing him a pen during the ceremonies for the signing of the civil rights bill at the White House.
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to three young civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. The award was posthumous, because they were killed fifty years ago in what was known as "Freedom Summer."

The American RadioWorks documentary unit produced a history of those events of the summer of 1964, called "Oh Freedom Over Me."