In 1964, Courtland Cox was among hundreds of college students who traveled to Mississippi to help register Black people to vote, drawing strong opposition from the state's segregationists.
Cox's activism began at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where at 19 he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
He tackled voter disenfranchisement head on with the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. They used poll tax, literacy tests and violence to make sure that Black people did not vote.
People need to understand that this is not a straight line, this is a battle. This is not about, We did this in 1960 and therefore everything will be alright.' No, every day, it's a battle.
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