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 ...

Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

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 ...

On June 21, 1964, three young men disappeared near the ... to train a group of Freedom Summer volunteers. Upon returning to Mississippi, Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney visited the charred remains ...

The pair have been friends since they met 50 years ago during “Freedom Summer,” when hundreds of volunteers, most of them young white Northerners, traveled to Mississippi in 1964 to launch a ...

When Dave Dennis gave the eulogy at the funeral of James Chaney—who was killed along with two other civil rights workers in the summer of 1964—some ... We want our freedom now!

FILE – In this June 26, 2014 file photo, Robert “Bob” Moses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) project director in 1964, discusses the importance of Freedom Summer 1964 during ...

The marker is located at 816 Elnora Knight Road, which was an essential hub of the 1964 Freedom Summer Movement. “We are honored to celebrate the legacy of Victoria Jackson Gray Adams as the ...

Mark Levy volunteered for the Mississippi Freedom Summer project of 1964 as co-coordinator and teacher at the Meridian Freedom School in Lauderdale County. Levy received a B.A. in Sociology (1964) and ...