focuses on the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum (RCCAM) and Western Campus. For an introduction to Freedom Summer 1964, please see the Remembering Freedom Summer video. Also known as 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 ...

Sophomores at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School attended a presentation at the school Tuesday morning featuring Mark Levy ...

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 ...