Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...

Amid a push to register voters in 2024, advocates who risked their lives to do the same in Mississippi's1964 Freedom Summer project reflect on the legacy of the movement.

Hattiesburg is getting ready to celebrate Freedom Summer (again). Once a cradle of the civil rights movement with figures like Clyde Kennard and sisters Joyce and Dorie Ladner, Hattiesburg will ...

Lessons learned from Freedom Summer are still important, said Cobb. “It's more relevant because a lot of these lessons from '64 and earlier in the South particularly are forgotten,’’ he said.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Images of the history made during Hattiesburg’s ”Freedom Summer “ will be on display starting later this month at the University of Southern Mississippi’s ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – A Shreveport native and civil rights activist was the architect of Freedom Summer in 1964.Here’s his story. Dave Dennis’ civil rights journey. David Dennis, Sr. began his ...

Freedom days. Three years after Freedom Summer, Funchess, at the NAACP's urging, attended a white middle school. "I went on a mission," Funchess said. For a year, the 13-year-old ate lunch by herself.

The professional photographer, who died in early 2022, wanted this Freedom Summer-related work placed at a relevant institution. This show (on view through December 10) is the first major exhibition ...

“Freedom Summer at 60: Mississippi as a Catalyst for Change” features a collection of images from civil rights photographers selected from the university library archives.

Amid a push to register voters in 2024, advocates who risked their lives to do the same in Mississippi's1964 Freedom Summer project reflect on the legacy of the 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 ...