Aimed at increasing Black voter registration in Mississippi, the Freedom Summer workers included Black Mississippians and hundreds of out-of-state, predominately white volunteers. Though the SNCC ...

Aimed at increasing Black American voter registration in Mississippi, Freedom Summer workers included Black Mississippians and hundreds of out-of-state, predominately white volunteers. Around 800 ...

Freedom Summer volunteers were aware of the danger involved in going to Mississippi. That danger was confirmed early in the summer when the volunteers learned that three members of their group ...

He saw firsthand the danger the Freedom Summer volunteers were in, and felt compelled to share those images with the world. His work is chronicled in a book called "Faces of Freedom Summer".