The party was formed by Black residents of Mississippi, as part of the Freedom Summer project, who were not permitted to participate in meetings of the state Democratic Party. In this Aug. 6 ...

Many local churches housed civil rights workers and hosted mass meetings. Some locals opened ... Historians say projects such as "Freedom Summer" in 1964 couldn't have happened without help ...

Fifty years ago, "Freedom Summer" organizers set out to change Mississippi. They wound up changing the nation, too. In 1963, Bob Moses and others conceived of the idea of recruiting hundreds of ...

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 ...

The field officer cautioned that while we were visiting Mississippi only for the summer ... staff meeting. Because we were English majors, we were reassigned to teach in a Freedom School.

By the end of the summer, over 60,000 Black ... their lives to participate in local meetings, candidate selections and a mock election known as the “Freedom Vote” that ran parallel to the ...

Dennis was a force behind the Freedom Summer of 1964, a plan to expose the ... to the movement during one of the most pivotal meetings of the era, held in the living room of Dr. Richard Harris ...

Charlie Cobb Jr. (WJXT, Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.) Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote ...

In 1964, 800 volunteers trained on the Western College for Women campus in Oxford as part of the Freedom Summer initiative to register Black voters in the South. The Western College Alumnae ...

The party was formed by Black residents of Mississippi, as part of the Freedom Summer project, who were not permitted to participate in meetings of the state Democratic Party. “I know you talked ...