I’m just one of its chroniclers, of course, but it seems to me the highest of literary callings.” I’ve tried to walk into the deep telling of this wide-angled story. The American Story won’t be fully told - or even properly understood - until this facet of it is told. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and White House butler Eugene Allen - “have covered the terrors and triumphs of Freedom Summer. He said some of the books he has written - those about New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., U.S.
Haygood has been the Boadway Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence in Miami’s Department of Media, Journalism, and Film since 2014-2015, and he’ll be back on campus periodically this upcoming academic year. I roamed around Florida interviewing those brave white and Black citizens who saved civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall from being murdered during his on-the-ground investigations there.” I sat with George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, as he spun his version of battling with Martin Luther King Jr. I’ve sat with Julian Bond and listened to his memories of the epochal March on Washington. “I’ve stood outside the grocery store that young Emmett Till walked into in Money, Mississippi, before he was lynched. Many of the stories have taken me into the landscape of the South, where Freedom Summer unfolded,” he said. “In my journalism and book writing life, there have been a lot of words written. Haygood called it “an unbelievable honor” to be named a recipient of the award. “Their sacrifice accelerated the movement for civil rights,” President Crawford said of the men when Miami recognized them in 2021 by dedicating residence hall lobbies in their honor near the grounds where they trained during Freedom Summer in 1964. Three of the Freedom Summer activists - Michael Schwerner, 24, James Chaney, 21, and Andrew Goodman, 20 - were murdered in Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan. Organizer Bob Moses led the training of hundreds of college students to travel south to register Black voters. The Freedom Summer of ’64 Award recognizes the spirit of the 800 students who trained at the Western College for Women, now part of Miami’s Western Campus. as well as globally, and the ways in which race continues to shape our lives,” President Crawford wrote. “Through ‘The Butler,’ ‘Tigerland,’ and ‘Colorization,’ your work in The Washington Post, and many other writings, your work pushes us to examine and analyze uncomfortable truths and histories in the U.S. and your leadership as a prolific public intellectual has and continues to be an inspiration to many,” Miami President Gregory Crawford said in a letter to Haygood, a 1976 Miami graduate. “Your unwavering focus on ongoing social justice issues and the importance of examining the Black experience in the U.S. The award is given each year to a distinguished leader who has inspired the nation to advance civil rights and social justice. Miami University will honor acclaimed author and journalist Wil Haygood with the Freedom Summer of ’64 Award.
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