two years after the freedom summer, vernon damer his house , was firebombed.e did die later from the effects of smoke inhalation. this was after freedom summer. even though it really motivated locals and made a lot of headway, it was still the silence and kind of intimidation that existed in hattiesburg and much of the state. so freedom summer had a large impact on hattiesburg and the state. had, it encouraged people to stand up for themselves, to be a little more sure in their protest. different programs came out of the freedom summer, such as, i think, headstart came out of it. >> you also had people willing to push for integration. tools peoplee learned, they were able to change their lives. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> we recently traveled to hattiesburg, mississippi. hattiesburgbout that c-span.org/cies

. >> first revisit the home of a vernon damer. a civil rights leader whose home was attacked by the ku klux klan. >> it came as a result of the orders from the head of the , who said -- go annihilate him. they came to kill the whole family. >> my husband was vernon damon senior. he worked to try to get african-americans registered to vote. he had been in the sunday school and part of the choir. cotton,commercial tending as much as 70 acres of cotton. >> my dad was one of the founders of that branch of the acp. establish. men to at that time it was definitely out -- an underground organization. he felt that having the opportunity to vote -- because he couldn't vote, was the pathway hopefully to first class .itizenship >> there were places that blacks couldn't go that the white could go. the row house was the only places where the bathrooms for black people. colored on the doors, colored was for black people. .ven the water fountains they were side-by-side, a white fountain and a black fountain. colored fountain is what they really

three years after freedom summer, vernon damer's house was firebombed and he did die later from the effects of smoke inhalation. this was after freedom summer. even though it made a lot of headway, there was still this inlence and intimidation hattiesburg and much of the state. the freedom summer had a large impact on hattiesburg and the state. we had encouraged people to stand up for themselves, to be a little more sure in their protest. different programs came out of freedom summer, such as head start. that became very important to mississippi schools. people willing to push for integration in various schools in the area. because of the confidence and the tools people are during freedom summer, they were able to change lives in the community. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> we are back now at the smithsonian national museum of american history for more of the african-american history conference. [indiscernible chatter] >> you