Time now for StoryCorps. Sixty years ago, civil rights groups organized summer schools for African American kids across Mississippi. These Freedom Schools were held in churches, barns and backyards.

Menu K-12 School and Community Visitors Freedom Summer ‘64 for Self-Guided Classes and Groups Steve Schapiro (American, 1934-2022), We Shall Overcome, 1964. Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 inches ...

The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, known as Freedom Summer, was an initiative organized by civil rights groups to help increase the number of black voters in Mississippi. Organizers gathered ...

Historians say projects such as "Freedom Summer" in 1964 couldn't have happened ... "It set the stage for it," Carson said. Groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, made ...

an umbrella group which included SNCC, joined locals in Mississippi to help register Blacks citizens to vote. Freedom Summer, as it was dubbed, was a critical turning point in the civil rights ...

Wimbish spent a large part of her lecture focusing on Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist from Mississippi who led and organized Freedom Summer at the Western College ... for Black people and ...

It is modeled after the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, a volunteer campaign organized to register ... provide opportunities for underserved groups, officials say. Both West and Loutin ...

The ‘Freedom Summer’ goes from May 27 to September 2, and only allows bridges in Florida to light up in red, white and blue — which some say prevents minority groups from garnering attention ...