For Freedom Summer, they turned to outsiders, namely white college students from the North, to draw national attention to their efforts. Many of the students stayed in the homes of Black families ...

During a 10-week period known as "Freedom Summer," ... Summer," members of multiple civil rights organizations worked tirelessly to integrate the state's political system and draw attention to its ...

Civil rights activists did turn to outsiders, namely white college students from the North, to draw national attention to their efforts during Freedom Summer. Many of those students stayed in the ...

(RNS) Fifty years after Freedom Summer, it’s easy to attribute the risks of the militant SNCC and its Freedom Summer volunteers to youthful idealism. But many who were there insist faith played ...

They came to register blacks to vote, and to establish "Freedom Schools ... the "Mississippi Summer Project." The group concluded it needed a dramatic tactic to draw national attention to the ...

They came to register blacks to vote, and to establish “Freedom Schools ... the “Mississippi Summer Project.” The group concluded it needed a dramatic tactic to draw national attention ...

That time in 1964 was so courageous, so confrontational and so critical, it’s been designated “Freedom Summer.” The 1960s project was designed to draw the nation’s attention to the violent ...

They came to register Blacks to vote, and to establish “Freedom Schools ... the “Mississippi Summer Project.” The group concluded it needed a dramatic tactic to draw national attention ...

The 1964 Freedom Summer project was designed to draw the nation's attention to the violent oppression experienced by Mississippi Blacks who attempted to exercise their constitutional rights ...