CORTEZ-TODD: THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CREATING FREEDOM SCHOOLS ... 53 YEARS AFTER SHE SPENT A SUMMER WORKING FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN LOUISIANA, FATIMA CORTEZ-TODD IS HEADING ...

It’s been 60 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, but Fatima ... rights and how far they say the nation still needs need to go. Cortez Todd was raised in the civil rights ...

Veterans of the civil rights movement reunited this week at Tougaloo College here in what might be their final gathering, 50 years after the combat that defined them. During "Freedom Summer" in ...

"Spending a summer ... Freedom Summer volunteers. "It's very different, even for a black kid ... going [down South] in '63 or '64," says Norton. "Because then you're going with the civil rights ...

What is truly powerful about the idea of a modern day Freedom Summer is that we know that movements have a domino effect. For King: “The civil rights movement, and, in many ways SNCC in ...