The missing workers drove that point home because we were quite frank telling the volunteers, "We think they are dead." ... Nelson: When the white community heard that this Freedom Summer was ...

The women coming to Mississippi knew they could be beaten, knew they could be raped, knew they could be missing and that happened - but they came,” said Hezekiah Watkins, Freedom Summer Volunteer.

Schwerner, however, was not there that day; he had gone to Oxford, Ohio, to train a group of Freedom Summer volunteers. Upon returning to Mississippi, Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney visited the ...

Volunteer Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons recalls hearing that James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were missing ... fact that the majority of the summer volunteers were white.

The faces of missing children on ... of Defense to distribute a poster highlighting the significance of National POW/MIA Recognition Day. The focus is freedom. American warriors of yesterday ...

Eden was one 95 CMS seventh-graders who learned about the 1964 voter registration campaign in Mississippi known as the Freedom Summer and who ... of their research on poster board displays that ...

On June 21, 1964, at the launch of Freedom Summer, three civil-rights workers went missing in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Forty-four days later, federal a ...

Our national discussion of unity and civility reminds me that this summer marks the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a movement that became a pivotal moment in the 1960s civil rights struggle.