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 ...

Schwerner, however, was not there that day; he had gone to Oxford, Ohio, to train a group of Freedom Summer volunteers. Upon returning to Mississippi, Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney visited the ...

Before the first Freedom buses even rolled to the Deep South, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney went missing and were ... attention to Freedom Summer. The murders are obviously ...

Volunteer Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons recalls hearing that James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were missing ... fact that the majority of the summer volunteers were white.

Our national discussion of unity and civility reminds me that this summer marks the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a movement that became a pivotal moment in the 1960s civil rights struggle.

On June 21, 1964, at the launch of Freedom Summer, three civil-rights workers went missing in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Forty-four days later, federal a ...

Eden was one 95 CMS seventh-graders who learned about the 1964 voter registration campaign in Mississippi known as the Freedom Summer and who ... of their research on poster board displays that ...