Some events from the summer of 1964 in Mississippi are well-known. It was Freedom Summer, tragically highlighted by the brutal murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. The outrage ultimately led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. At that same time, two groups of young men, one set from the East Coast and the other from California, had also come to Mississippi. They were searching for two legendary bluesmen, Skip James and Son House, who had disappeared after making indelible recordings decades earlier. The story of their search and how it intertwined with the civil rights movement is the subject of a stellar new documentary, Two Trains Runnin’.
