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 ...

As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the help of local leaders Chris and Taryn Holzinger have been hard at work for nine months, organizing and designing the details of a mural telling the story of Freedom Summer. “It was a ...

The work of MFDP was one part of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, or Freedom Summer, which brought hundreds of college students to the state to work for Civil Rights. Although some SNCC ...

The local project is to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer movement. Also shown is Lynd’s son, Lee Lynd. YOUNGSTOWN — Young people fighting for others ...

Statewide Freedom School Convention in Meridian during Mississippi Freedom Summer. Mark Levy volunteered for the Mississippi Freedom Summer project of 1964 as co-coordinator and teacher at the ...