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

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin ...

In the 1960’s the Klan rode freely in the South on horseback, trucks and cars. After the murders, Sheriff Cecil Price told ...

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 ...

Charlie Cobb Jr. (WJXT, Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.) Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote ...

We were fearless. We were the revolutionary storm troopers." This year marks the 50th anniversary of "Freedom Summer" in Mississippi, when Barry and other civil rights workers took shelter with ...

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 ...

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 ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Libraires is honoring the 60th anniversary of 1964’s Freedom Summer with a lecture from noted civil rights activist Leslie-Burl McLemore on Friday [Aug. 30].

Freedom Summer is just one aspect of the Mississippi Freedom Trail, a historical trail that commemorates significant sites related to the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. The trail marker in ...

Freedom Summer was an effort to register as many Black voters as possible in Mississippi as part of larger civil rights activism. The trail marker honors the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ...

During that summer in 1964, Black and white college students and others led by the Council of Federated Organizations, an umbrella group which included SNCC, joined locals in Mississippi to help ...