A piece of Mississippi’s complex past is on display at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. At first glance, it’s just an ...

WASHINGTON – Charles McLaurin initially disagreed with the plan to bring college students – many of them white, many from the North ‒ to Mississippi 60 years ago to help register Black ...

Michael Ansara has been an activist and organizer since the 1960s. His memoir, “The Hard Work of Hope,” will be published by ...

Daphne Chamberlain, a Mississippi civil rights historian, said she supports any effort to commemorate Freedom Summer and educate people about the importance of voting in local and national elections.

In interviews with Morgan, the three voting rights advocates reflected on their involvement 60 years ago in the historic Freedom Summer Project – a groundbreaking movement in Mississippi that ...

We went home with him and stayed in his cellar for two days to learn about our tasks during what became known as the Mississippi Summer Project, Freedom Summer and “the long hot summer.” ...

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 ...

THE LIVES LOST AND THE LABOR OF THE MISSISSIPPI SUMMER FREEDOM. AND BEGINNING TOMORROW, THE LOUISVILLE SUMMER FREEDOM CONTINUES THE HISTORIC VOTING CAMPAIGN. 60 YEARS AGO, YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN ...

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 ...

Some in Alabama made their own four-word call: “Thank God for Mississippi.” This time, the high-profile violence was elsewhere. After Freedom Summer, SNCC workers and others made their way to ...

The National Civ i l Rights Museum will hold a symposium on Freedom Summer July 27 in Memphis. In June, veterans hosted a two-day conference in Indianola, Mississippi. To go deeper: Freedom Summer ...