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Amid a push to register voters in 2024, advocates who risked their lives to do the same in Mississippi's1964 Freedom Summer project reflect on the legacy of the movement.
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.
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 ...
Was Freedom Summer a failure? At the end of August, a day before Curtis and I drove back to Texas, we attended a service in Philadelphia in honor of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.
The meeting was called to discuss the continuation of the Freedom Rides after Freedom Riders, on May 14, 1961, were met with firebombs by a violent white mob of segregationists in Anniston ...
According to the King Institute at Stanford University, about 17,000 Black Mississippians tried to register in the summer of 1964, but only 1,600 of the completed applications were accepted.
By the end of the summer, over 60,000 Black Mississippi residents and a multi-racial mobilization of volunteers risked their lives to participate in local meetings, candidate selections and a mock ...
T he FotoFocus Biennial exhibition at Miami University Art Museum, A Lens for Freedom: Civil Rights Photographs by Steve Schapiro, honors what has become one of the prouder moments in school history: ...
Amid a push to register voters in 2024, advocates who risked their lives to do the same in Mississippi's1964 Freedom Summer project reflect on the legacy of the movement.
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 ...