During the Freedom Summer, hundreds of volunteers descended on Mississippi to register Black Americans to vote and establish the Freedom Schools and community centers.

"Freedom Summer was important because it brought to the North what was going on in Mississippi." SNCC workers went north, mostly to universities and big cities, to recruit volunteers.

NEW YORK — Stephen Schwerner doesn’t remember how he learned that his younger brother Michael, nicknamed Mickey, was missing in Mississippi along with colleagues Andrew Goodman and James Chaney.

During that summer in 1964, Black and white college students and others led by the Council of Federated Organizations, an umbrella group which included SNCC, joined locals in Mississippi to help ...

The National Civ i l Rights Museum will hold a symposium on Freedom Summer July 27 in Memphis. In June, veterans hosted a two-day conference in Indianola, Mississippi. To go deeper: Freedom Summer ...

Over the course of the summer of 1964, members of the Klan burned 20 black Mississippi churches. On June 16, Klan members targeted Neshoba County's Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where Schwerner had ...

A Mississippi town still grapples with that violent civil rights history PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Even in a decade marked by hatred and violence, what happened here on a sultry June night 60 years ...

Voting activist killed during Freedom Summer in Mississippi believed country should be integrated Stephen Schwerner doesn’t remember how he learned that his younger brother Michael was missing ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Schwerner doesn’t remember how he learned that his younger brother Michael, nicknamed Mickey, was missing in Mississippi along with colleagues Andrew Goodman and James ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Schwerner doesn’t remember how he learned that his younger brother Michael, nicknamed Mickey, was missing in Mississippi along with colleagues Andrew Goodman and James ...

Stephen Schwerner doesn’t remember how he learned his younger brother Michael was missing in Mississippi along with colleagues Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. Search wdiv 64 º ...