'64: Student's documentary wins gold medal in history competition

In 1964, many blacks in the South were routinely denied the right to vote. But in one tumultuous summer of voter registration drives and violence, that changed.

By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
June 27, 2006

Twenty-nine years before Lauren White was born, something happened that would change the 13-year-old Camp Sherman girl's life forever.

It was 1964, and the country was on the verge of a sea change. Dylan was prophesying, Goldwater and Johnson were vilifying, and blacks in the Deep South were on....

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