Freedom Summer, as it was dubbed, was a critical turning point in the civil rights movement and helped lead to passage of major legislation, including the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Lessons learned from Freedom Summer are still important, said Cobb. “It's more relevant because a lot of these lessons from '64 and earlier in the South particularly are forgotten,’’ he said.

Freedom Summer also drew national media after the murder of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in June that year. Goodman and Schwerner were white.

Fifty years ago, "Freedom Summer" organizers set out to change Mississippi. They wound up changing the nation, too. In 1963, Bob Moses and others conceived of the idea of recruiting hundreds of ...

Freedom Summer Demonstrations in Greenville, Miss., " Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner are missing" Greenville picket line in 1964.

During a 1964 effort to register Black people to vote, known as Freedom Summer, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Miss. In this special “Post Reports ...

The next Freedom Summer STL event is planned for July 27, at Habitat for Humanity on South Grand and Chippewa. Community activities will culminate with a march and rally downtown on Aug. 30, 2024.

The Madison Metropolitan School District kicked off its inaugural 2025 Freedom Schools summer program at Mendota Elementary.