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 ...

As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the ...

The idea for the mural started as a project at Pearl River Community ... mural was important to him because he has memories of Freedom Summer. “When you’re going through it, you’re more ...

The work of MFDP was one part of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, or Freedom Summer, which brought hundreds of college students to the state to work for Civil Rights. Although some SNCC ...

Schwerner, however, was not there that day; he had gone to Oxford, Ohio, to train a group of Freedom Summer volunteers ... was part of an oral history project to be held by the Mississippi ...

The local project is to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer movement. Also shown is Lynd’s son, Lee Lynd. YOUNGSTOWN — Young people fighting for others ...

Freedom Summer follows them as they learn about themselves and others at Black Lives Matter Toronto’s Freedom School — a summer camp where Black kids learn that Black is beautiful.

Mark Levy volunteered for the Mississippi Freedom Summer project of 1964 as co-coordinator and teacher at the Meridian Freedom School in Lauderdale County. Levy received a B.A. in Sociology (1964) and ...