He later met Freedom Summer organizers at Queens College and joined their campaign to enroll more Black voters in Mississippi, where discriminatory voter laws and threats of violence against Black ...

McLean County Unit School District 5 will host a summer program, Freedom School, for middle-school students. What started as a one-summer program was stretched into two summers and is now being ...

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 ...

Though full voter enfranchisement was ultimately unsuccessful, Freedom Summer empowered the masses to renew their demands for equal citizenship. Bob Moses promised to return to continue the job ...

During a 1964 effort to register Black people to vote, known as Freedom Summer, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Miss. In this special “Post Reports ...

CRT Summer School has themed this year's programming in honor of the Freedom Summer anniversary. Critical Race Theory (CRT) Summer School is back for its 5th annual event in Nashville while paying ...

In 1964, civil rights groups organized Freedom Schools: summer programs for kids across the state of Mississippi. More than 2,500 children attended 41 schools. Classes ranged from literature and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Community Symposium: Celebrating the ...

During that summer in 1964, Black and white college students and others led by the Council of Federated Organizations, an umbrella group which included SNCC, joined locals in Mississippi to help ...

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. That summer of ...

It is the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer. The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis will host a symposium on the 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer on July 27 from 10: ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The National Civil Rights Museum will host a community symposium on the 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer on Saturday, July 27, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The symposium ...