WASHINGTON – Charles McLaurin initially disagreed with the plan to bring college ... and how do we insert our voices.” Lessons learned from Freedom Summer are still important, said Cobb.

the Finding Freedom Summer Traveling Exhibit, along with corresponding lesson plans, teaches fourth and fifth grade students timely lessons about the civil rights movement, racial injustice and civil ...

A civil rights activist who famously stormed Mississippi’s all-white delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City during 1964’s Freedom Summer, Hamer also organized voter registration ...

Friday's rally will “serve as a gateway into Freedom Summer 2024 leading into the critical ... have also launched efforts to counter book bans and history lesson restrictions.

Terry Roy, St. Petersburg Revisiting Freedom Summer | Perspective, June 9 I wish everyone would read Bill Maxwell’s column and note that the events he describes happened only six decades ago.

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 ...

Upon arrival at Antioch University in 1957, Mark Levy quickly became involved in the civil rights movement, and later at Queens College he met Freedom Summer organizers, who recruited Levy and his ...

A film festival and art exhibit will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer at Crevasse 22 River House in St. Bernard Parish Sunday (July 21) from noon to 4 p.m. The films "Juneteenth ...