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 ...

director and chief curator of the art museum. It’s a “teachable moment” for the school, he explains. Lens for Freedom chronicles aspects of the Mississippi Freedom Project, which soon became better ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - We are on the verge of the 60th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The National Civil Rights Museum hosted a talk led by a participant of the Movement.

THE LIVES LOST AND THE LABOR OF THE MISSISSIPPI SUMMER FREEDOM. AND BEGINNING TOMORROW, THE LOUISVILLE SUMMER FREEDOM CONTINUES THE HISTORIC VOTING CAMPAIGN. 60 YEARS AGO, YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN ...

WASHINGTON – Charles McLaurin initially disagreed with the plan to bring college students – many of them white, many from the North ‒ to Mississippi 60 years ago to help register Black ...

During "Freedom Summer" in 1964, Mississippi became their battlefield and Tougaloo their safe haven. Voting rights and education became their causes. Bob Moses, just 29 then, led them.

Some in Alabama made their own four-word call: “Thank God for Mississippi.” This time, the high-profile violence was elsewhere. After Freedom Summer, SNCC workers and others made their way to ...

We went home with him and stayed in his cellar for two days to learn about our tasks during what became known as the Mississippi Summer Project, Freedom Summer and “the long hot summer.” ...

The disappearance of the three men, who had been part of a drive to register Black voters in Mississippi during what was called Freedom Summer, and the discovery of their bodies weeks later was an ...

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 ...

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 ...