On his experience in Mississippi, 1964

"I remember one incident...We were just have a normal kind of meeting in a little corner grocery store...and [the police]...drove up, a lot of cops, dogs, the whole thing...[and they] could have decided to beat the hell out of all of us or shoot us...it was...the real psychological moment of truth...ad that moment could have gone either way...everybody was afraid...They told us to break up the meeting and instead we stood our ground...outside the little store [and] began to sing and...the psychological balance of power...[shifted] in our favor and they left. It was moments like that you felt...practically an erotic feeling...it was sexual in a certain way; you felt so close...you loved everybody in that place at that moment."

A Freedom Summer volunteer
Freedom Summer, Doug McAdam