Also, see this Campus Map for mobile devices related to Freedom Summer on Western Campus Facilities and parking: Our address is: Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum, 801 S. Patterson Ave, Oxford, OH ...

(WDAM) - In Hattiesburg, art and storytelling are coming together ... organizing and designing the details of a mural telling the story of Freedom Summer. “It was a really historical event ...

Historians say projects such as "Freedom Summer" in 1964 couldn't have happened without help from locals in Mississippi. "If you commemorate the summer, you also commemorate those people who were ...

Freedom Summer, as it was dubbed, was a critical turning point in the civil rights movement and helped lead to passage of major legislation, including the 1965 Voting Rights Act. That summer of ...

Our national discussion of unity and civility reminds me that this summer marks the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a movement that became a pivotal moment in the 1960s civil rights struggle.

By 1964, both would be leaders of the Freedom Summer Project, which aimed to achieve mass voter registration for Blacks in Mississippi. More than 1,000 out-of-state volunteers, mostly white ...

Which brings me to the 1964 Freedom Summer. Sixty years ago, an incredibly audacious, root-deep radical effort was organized to increase voter registration among Black Americans in Mississippi.

trained activists from the North were shuttled by bus to states in the South in an effort to end segregation and register Black voters during the summer months in a project called the Freedom ...

He later met Freedom Summer organizers at Queens College and joined their campaign to enroll more Black voters in Mississippi, where discriminatory voter laws and threats of violence against Black ...

Though full voter enfranchisement was ultimately unsuccessful, Freedom Summer empowered the masses to renew their demands for equal citizenship. Bob Moses promised to return to continue the job ...