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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - Laurel residents and representatives from multiple historical groups are fighting to save a home they ...

He later met Freedom Summer organizers at Queens College and joined their campaign to enroll more Black voters in Mississippi, where discriminatory voter laws and threats of violence against Black ...

which was an essential hub of the 1964 Freedom Summer Movement. “We are honored to celebrate the legacy of Victoria Jackson ...

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 ...

Actor and filmmaker Richard Beymers documentary film A Regular Bouquet Mississippi Summer 1964 ... to spend significant time working with Freedom Summer volunteers from the Student Nonviolent ...

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 ...

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