During the Jim Crow era, Black voters faced intimidation and violence. As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the Rev ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...

Forty-eight Freedom Summer volunteers will reunite in Oxford next week, 50 years after they went through training to register black voters in Mississippi and set up Freedom Schools and community ...

(RNS) Fifty years after Freedom Summer, it’s easy to attribute the risks of the militant SNCC and its Freedom Summer volunteers to youthful idealism. But many who were there insist faith played an ...

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 ...

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” episode, ...

At the Freedom Summer anniversary conference in Jackson, Miss., the activists who registered black voters and taught in Freedom Schools under the threat of violence 50 years ago stood up to introduce ...

In 1964, in a 10-week effort known as Freedom Summer, hundreds of out-of-state volunteers joined local activists in Mississippi to increase voter registration among disenfranchised African Americans ...

Nearly 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Movement gave rise to Freedom Schools, which in turn raised important questions about the quality and equality of education in America. This summer, the spirit of ...

Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Freedom Summer Sales Tax Holiday into the budget for Fiscal Year 2024-25, which will take place throughout July, making items such as fishing supplies, outdoor ...

Shattering the foundations of white supremacy. Freedom Summer premieres on June 24, 2014. For 10 weeks during the summer of 1964, over 700 students from the North joined activists on the ground for a ...