Freedom Summer, as it was dubbed, was a critical turning point in the civil rights movement and helped lead to passage of ...

I n 1964, Courtland Cox was among hundreds of college students who traveled to Mississippi to help register Black people to ...

Freedom Summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the ...

Menu K-12 School and Community Visitors Freedom Summer ‘64 for Self-Guided Classes and Groups Steve Schapiro (American, 1934-2022), We Shall Overcome, 1964. Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 inches ...

Most colleges have a voter resources page, which is a great place to start. You can also look at the Secretary of State’s ...

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 ...

Civil rights leader Leslie Burl McLemore will present "Freedom Summer: The Summer That Changed Democracy in America" as part of MSU Libraries' commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer.

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 ...

Gucci embraced its move away from maximalist ex-creative director Alessandro Michele, honouring ‘freedom’ in the label’s ...

Freedom Summer follows them as they learn about themselves and others at Black Lives Matter Toronto’s Freedom School — a summer camp where Black kids learn that Black is beautiful.

A folk singer. A photographer. A future politician. They all went to Mississippi in 1964 for different reasons—some were already there. But they all had a common goal: to shatter the foundations ...