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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Two Mississippi Museums commemorated the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer on Thursday by provided students with a History Happy Hour.

Barbara Jan Nave was crowned Miss Mississippi in 1963. When her family hosted Freedom Summer volunteers in their home, life for them turned ugly. Her mother Malva Heffner recalled, "I went ...

Freedom Summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the ...

For an introduction to Freedom Summer 1964, please see the Remembering Freedom Summer video. Also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration effort sponsored ...

but she is most well known for co-founding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Passionately fighting for equal voting rights, she helped organize Freedom Summer and worked to register Black ...

Tate Reeves opted out of the federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer program for the second year in a row, leaving more families in southeast Mississippi struggling to put food on the table.

In Mississippi the rural schools are open during the summer and so Freedom School classes have to be held in the evening. Mississippi students get their "vacation" in September, October ...

Now Eric Etheridge, a veteran magazine editor, provides a visceral tribute to those road warriors in Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders. The book, a collection of ...