In February 2018, Western College was declared a Freedom Station by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Volunteers practice non-violent resistance during Freedom Summer training at ...

Aimed at increasing Black American voter registration in Mississippi, Freedom Summer workers included Black Mississippians and hundreds of out-of-state, predominately white volunteers. Around 800 ...

For Freedom Summer, they turned to outsiders, namely white college students from the North, to draw national attention to their efforts. Many of the students stayed in the homes of Black families ...

Freedom Summer was organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, which recruited 700 college students — mostly white students from the North — to travel to Mississippi ...

Sixty years ago, during the initial Freedom Summer, hundreds of mostly college students joined local activists in Mississippi to register Black citizens to vote. Other groups and organizations ...

Though most of the murderers would never be brought to justice, the men’s disappearance did bring national attention to Freedom Summer. The murders are obviously a big part of “Freedom Summer.” ...

The field officer cautioned that while we college students were visiting ... during what became known as the Mississippi Summer Project, Freedom Summer and “the long hot summer.” ...

Upon arrival at Antioch University in 1957, Mark Levy quickly became involved in the civil rights movement, and later at Queens College he met Freedom Summer organizers, who recruited Levy and his ...

The rally was the beginning of a historic year in Mississippi. Months later, civil rights groups launched Freedom Summer. More than 1,000 out-of-state volunteers traveled to Mississippi to help ...

Voter education, registration, and outreach was a primary focus of the nonpartisan Central Valley Freedom Summer, which promoted civic engagement ... of immigrants and the first in his family to go to ...