Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

Freedom Summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the ...

As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the ...

Menu K-12 School and Community Visitors Freedom Summer ‘64 for Self-Guided Classes and Groups Steve Schapiro (American, 1934-2022), We Shall Overcome, 1964. Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 inches ...

Schwerner, however, was not there that day; he had gone to Oxford, Ohio, to train a group of Freedom Summer volunteers. Upon returning to Mississippi, Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney visited the ...

With the help of local leaders Chris and Taryn Holzinger have been hard at work for nine months, organizing and designing the ...

The work of MFDP was one part of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, or Freedom Summer, which brought hundreds of college students to the state to work for Civil Rights. Although some SNCC ...

I think Gov. Ron DeSantis can do better than leaning on the Second Amendment to turn his back on LGBTQ+ Floridians.

Freedom Summer follows them as they learn about themselves and others at Black Lives Matter Toronto’s Freedom School — a summer camp where Black kids learn that Black is beautiful.

With the help of local leaders Chris and Taryn Holzinger have been hard at work for nine months, organizing and designing the details of a mural telling the story of Freedom Summer. “It was a ...