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..

During "Freedom Summer" in 1964, Mississippi became their battlefield and Tougaloo their safe haven. Voting rights and education became their causes. Bob Moses, just 29 then, led them.

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.

“Freedom Summer actually ushered in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ‘65,” said Clarence Magee, National Association for the Advanced of Colored People Forrest County president.

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 Mississippi town still grapples with that violent civil rights history PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Even in a decade marked by hatred and violence, what happened here on a sultry June night 60 years ...

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 ...

“Freedom Summer actually ushered in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ‘65,” said Clarence Magee, National Association for the Advanced of Colored People Forrest County president.