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 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Shreveport native and civil rights icon will speak at LSUS on Friday to discuss his role in the 1964 Summer of Freedom in Mississippi. Dave Dennis was one of the ...

PEABODY — Sophomores at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School attended a presentation at the school Tuesday morning featuring Mark Levy, a leader of a Mississippi Freedom School and a volunteer in the ...

The lives of two women from San Antonio are tied to the tumultuous months of 1964 known as Freedom Summer. Kirby resident Barbara Bowie remembers when more than 700 students from universities across ...

Civil rights activists, youth organizers and religious leaders from around the country will travel south this week to participate in the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference. Dubbed ...

"This collection contains Freedom School newspapers gathered from archives, libraries, and personal collections across America"--Introduction. "Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. MISSISSIPPI — A Klansman found guilty for ...