On a Hair Trigger

Name: On a Hair Trigger
Uploaded: 2014-06-11T20:25:45Z
Duration: P135S
Description: Local Mississippi leadership prepared themselves psychologically and militarily for Freedom Summer. The Ku Klux Klan rose up as one that April. Mississippi was on a hair trigger. Watch "Freedom Summer" on American Experience PBS on June 24, 2014.

Clip: Season 26 Episode 6 | 2m 15s

Local Mississippi leadership prepared themselves psychologically and militarily for Freedom Summer. The Ku Klux Klan rose up as one that April. Mississippi was on a hair trigger. Watch "Freedom Summer" on American Experience PBS on June 24, 2014.

Aired: 06/24/14

Rating: NR

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