By Sarah Grace Hays
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March 3, 2020
In the summer of 1964, hundreds of students gathered on what is now Miami University’s Western Campus to learn how to register African American voters in the South, specifically Mississippi. Among them was retired Miami philosophy professor Rick Momeyer.
Arrested three times, indicted by a grand jury and assaulted with various weapons in the South, Momeyer is an expert on Freedom Summer and its significance.
“If you don’t know black history, you don’t know American history,” Momeyer said. “It’s not a separate history.”