Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – Charles McLaurin initially disagreed with the plan to bring college students – many of them white, many from the ...
Charlie Cobb Jr. (WJXT, Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.) Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote ...
The recent arson that destroyed Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.'s only synagogue, recalls that state's dark history of violence ...
It’s well-known that 1964’s Freedom Summer, as it came to be called, was an interracial effort, with many white college students joining African Americans to register voters in Mississippi. It was the ...
Photograph of the audience at the MFDP lecture given by SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh (New York City), Director of the Hattiesburg Project, to Freedom School students in the sanctuary of True Light ...
Menu K-12 School and Community Visitors Art Explorers Freedom Summer ‘64 for Self-Guided Classes and Groups Steve Schapiro (American, 1934-2022), We Shall Overcome, 1964. Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 ...
From 1961 to 1964, a multi-racial group of young, 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 ...
FOR US TO EXPLAIN THE PROGRAM. ALEXIS. YEAH, JENNIFER. RICK. ON THE HEELS OF JUNETEENTH, THE ONLY HBCU IN LOUISVILLE IS HONORING ANOTHER LEGACY. THE LIVES LOST AND THE LABOR OF THE MISSISSIPPI SUMMER ...
In 1964 the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee launched the Freedom Summer campaign in an effort to increase African-American voter registration in ...
Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The historic ‘Freedom Summer’ of 1963 will be celebrated in the ...
In 1964, 800 volunteers trained on the Western College for Women campus in Oxford as part of the Freedom Summer initiative to register Black voters in the South. The Western College Alumnae ...
A film festival and art exhibit will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer at Crevasse 22 River House in St. Bernard Parish Sunday (July 21) from noon to 4 p.m. The films "Juneteenth: Faith ...