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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For an introduction to Freedom Summer 1964, please see the Remembering Freedom Summer video. Also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration effort sponsored ...

A Mississippi town still grapples with that ... June night 60 years ago shocked the nation for its brazenness. Amid Freedom Summer, a daring effort to register Black Mississippians to vote ...

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 ...

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 ...