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Watch the complete June 25, 1964 broadcast of a special CBS News report, anchored by Walter Cronkite, about the search for three civil rights workers who went missing while trying to register black voters in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" project

Watch the complete June 25, 1964 broadcast of a special CBS News report, anchored by Walter Cronkite, about the desperate search for three civil rights workers who went missing while trying to register black voters in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" project. The hour-long report features interviews with local officials and businessmen defending segregation in the state; civil rights workers on the violence unleashed upon activists; police on responding to protests; and local citizens about life under Jim Crow.

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Watch excerpts from President Lyndon B. Johnson's televised speech on July 2, 1964, as he signed the landmark Civil Rights Act to address racial discrimination and inequality

Watch excerpts from President Lyndon B. Johnson's televised speech on July 2, 1964, as he signed the landmark Civil Rights Act to address racial discrimination and inequality. "We have come now to a time of testing - we must not fail," he told an audience of lawmakers and civil rights advocates, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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In an interview conducted during the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, Miss. Gov. Paul Johnson decried participants in the voter registration effort, while law enforcement steeled themselves for the influx of volunteers seeking to register blacks to vote.

In an interview conducted during the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, Miss. Gov. Paul Johnson decried participants in the voter registration effort as "professional agitators" and "weirdos" who were misleading people of "good intentions," while law enforcement steeled themselves for the influx of volunteers seeking to register blacks to vote.

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Activist Amanda Nguyen on recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes

Police departments in major cities reported a nearly 150% increase in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in 2020 compared to the year before, according to an analysis by California State University's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. Amanda Nguyen, CEO and founder of the civil rights nonprofit Rise, joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano to discuss a viral video that she posted to raise awareness about anti-Asian racism during the pandemic. She also calls on the Biden administration to address inadequacies in the teaching of AAPI history in U.S. schools.

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