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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...