NAS JRB Fort Worth hosted a Summer Grilling Event, followed by a Freedom Fest with food, music, and fireworks.

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.

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

Freedom days. Three years after Freedom Summer, Funchess, at the NAACP's urging, attended a white middle school. "I went on a mission," Funchess said. For a year, the 13-year-old ate lunch by herself.

'Freedom Summer' returns to past civil rights struggles to reveal today's truths ...

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 was born out of the need to get Black people registered to vote in Mississippi. Hattiesburg remembers Freedom Summer 60 years later.

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

The Butler Township Recreation Board hosted a vibrant summer kickoff festival at Freedom Park on Saturday, drawing families ...