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 ...

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 ...

June 21, 1964, was an ordinary day for many Americans, but for three civil rights workers in Mississippi, it was the day their lives would end, and the fires of the civil rights movement were stoked, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you were a white person visiting Mississippi in the summer of 1964, you were risking your life. You were if you were participating in the Mississippi Summer Project, later known as Freedom Summer.

In 1964, less than 7% of Mississippi’s African Americans were registered to vote, compared to between 50 and 70% in other southern states. In many rural counties, African Americans made up the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Charles McLaurin initially disagreed with the plan to bring college students – many of them white, many from the North ‒ to Mississippi 60 years ago to help register Black residents to ...