Writer and activist Mab Segrest grew up in the US deep south during the civil rights era. At the time, a cousin of hers murdered a civil rights worker. Her influential and crucial autobiography, Memoir of a Race Traitor, continues to inspire a new generation of activists. Fifty years after Freedom Summer, Segrest reflects on a lifetime spent organizing against white supremacy, patriarchy and homophobia, and discusses the parallels between racist actions she grew up witnessing and today's right wing Tea Party. teleSur