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 ...

What is going on here is a result of The Algebra Project, a way of making abstract math interesting and intelligible to inner city children, the children of the rural poor and, indeed American ...

The idea for the mural started as a project at Pearl River Community ... mural was important to him because he has memories ...

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 reaction of Negroes to the summer project was uniform; the mother of twelve children said quietly, "For years we've heard of the freedom workers, but I never thought I'd live to see them in ...

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 ...

In 1964, just four years after Bridges’ first day, several Civil Rights organizations, including the NAACP, launched the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Civil Rights leader Ella Jo Baker was ...

and the Kennedy-endorsed Voter Education Project that prefigured the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, and ultimately, the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Most ...