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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The public is invited to Freedom 55, a mini-conference exploring the local history of Freedom Summer in 1964, and also current lessons and ideas to continue to address voting rights and social ...

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 volunteers entered Mississippi to register African-Americans to vote. What began as a peaceful organizing movement quickly became subject to harassment, ...

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 ...

We interviewed Pete Seeger last April for the upcoming doc Freedom Summer, coming June 24. Folk singer Pete Seeger was performing for a Meridian, Mississippi church congregation when he got word that ...

They called it "a campaign that may have no parallel since the days of Reconstruction." In 1964, a group of civil rights organizations hosted The Mississippi Summer Project, a campaign that would ...