Schwerner, however, was not there that day; he had gone to Oxford, Ohio, to train a group of Freedom Summer volunteers ... college students who had been kidnapped, beaten, and murdered in May ...

The missing workers drove that point home because we were quite frank telling the volunteers, "We think they are dead." ... Nelson: When the white community heard that this Freedom Summer was ...

and Michael Schwermer—went missing and were later found to have been murdered by a group of angry white supremacists. But there was more to the Freedom Summer than the murders of Chaney ...

(RNS) On June 2, 1964, while hundreds of Freedom Summer volunteers were still finishing their training in Oxford, Ohio, three civil rights workers went missing in Neshoba County, Miss. Student ...

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. That summer of ...

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.