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

According to the SNCC, that summer of 1964, the legislature in Mississippi tried to outlaw planned Freedom Schools and crosses were burned in 64 of the state’s 82 counties on a single night. But ...

The Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past organization will host a variety of activities, lectures and programs to honor several key anniversaries of events in the civil rights movement and ensure young ...

The Freedom Summer of ’64 Award was created to honor champions of civil rights and social justice. It is given in remembrance and recognition of the site at the Western College for Women (now part of ...

Hattiesburg Parks and Recreation keeps families entertained all summer long with free movie showings on most Saturdays at Town Square Park. The movies start playing soon after sunset, but guests ...

We named the effort “Vietnam Summer,” after the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, a campaign by civil rights activists to register as many Black Americans to vote as possible.

He started this event last year after the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) announced its Freedom Summer initiative, in which all the bridges across the state would be lit up red, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Members of the community are questioning the timing of the Main Street Bridge raising up as they were getting ready to walk across it for a Pride Month event.

The Sacramento area is home to one of the largest Freedom School programs in the country. It's a collection of literacy-based ...

The event first started in 2024, after FDOT launched its “Freedom Summer Initiative,” which required all state-owned bridges to be lit in red, white, and blue from Memorial Day through Labor Day.