Volunteers practice non-violent resistance during Freedom Summer training at Western College for Women (photo by Ted Polumbaum, Newseum Collection). Singing "We Shall Overcome," this group of Freedom ...

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 ...

In 1942, the organization held America's first organized sit-in in Chicago. Initially based in the North, CORE broadened its reach in 1961 by sending racially mixed groups of passengers on Freedom ...

In the summer of 1964, Charles McLaurin led a group of Freedom Summer volunteers in an effort to register voters in rural Mississippi. In 2014, he journeyed back to the small towns he worked in ...