McLemore, Simpson and Barber joined the Mississippi Freedom Summer project – an unprecedented voter registration drive that was the brainchild of the iconic civil rights advocate Bob Moses, a co ...

'Freedom Summer' returns to past civil rights struggles to reveal today's truths ...

The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis will host a symposium on the 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer on July 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m..

Freedom Summer, as it was dubbed, was a critical turning point in the civil rights movement and helped lead to passage of major legislation, including the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Freedom Summer, he said, drew national attention to the "entrenched" segregation in Mississippi, which had more lynchings than any other state. The project was key to passage of the Voting Rights Act.

The first day of that Freedom Summer began with the disappearances of three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andy Goodman and Michael Schwerner, casting a pall over students still training in ...

Community Symposium: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer can be experienced virtually or in person. The notable guests attending the various panels, discussions and a doc… ...

A cacophony of children’s voices, punctuated by stomps and claps, echoed in the Cardozo Middle School gymnasium in West ...

Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project in 1964. Since then, Cobb, who lives in Jacksonville, has ...

Mississippi Freedom Trail adds marker in NJ to note Civil Rights change that happened ... and is part of a series commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Freedom Summer voting rights movement.

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 ...