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 ...

Over two weeks of orientation, the Freedom Summer activists prepared for battle with segregationists on the leafy campus of Western College for Women, now part of Miami University. "That training ...

Western's administration stepped up when Kentucky's Berea College backed out. Freedom Summer and Western College made headlines after Ku Klux Klan members murdered three of the campaign's ...

at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, before heading to Mississippi to help register Black voters. “The thought behind that of Freedom Summer was that if well-to-do white people’s ...

Miami University is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer Friday with a 3 o ... to do voter registration in Mississippi, Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio gladly stepped ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of "Freedom Summer" in Mississippi ... Soon an army of volunteers, many of them white college students, headed to Oxford, Ohio, for training in nonviolent ...

Richard, a retired Miami philosophy professor, was a trainer for the Freedom Summer session at the Western College campus. FotoFocus returned this fall for the first time since 2020 with almost 100 ...

Jim Kates and hundreds of other civil rights activists who gathered at an Ohio college campus in June ... anniversary of what became known as "Freedom Summer." Three trees also are being planted ...

at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, before heading to Mississippi to help register Black voters. “The thought behind that of Freedom Summer was that if well-to-do white people’s ...