By 1964, both would be leaders of the Freedom Summer Project, which aimed to achieve mass voter registration for Blacks in Mississippi. More than 1,000 out-of-state volunteers, mostly white ...

In interviews with Morgan, the three voting rights advocates reflected on their involvement 60 years ago in the historic Freedom Summer Project – a groundbreaking movement in Mississippi that ...

“Still, you’re begging people to come to vote,’’ Weber said. As part of its Freedom Summer 2 project, the office plans to invite veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, many whom are in ...

Freedom Summer, as it was dubbed ... in the homes of Black families or slept in pews at Black churches. The project also drew national media attention after the murders of civil rights workers ...

trained activists from the North were shuttled by bus to states in the South in an effort to end segregation and register Black voters during the summer months in a project called the Freedom ...

Project FREEDOM — orchestrated by Until ... “The is about also celebrating the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, when Fannie Lou Hamer and [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...

As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the Rev. Rims Barber and Euvester Simpson – three of the remaining foot ...