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 ...

INDIANOLA ― The morning after Charles McLaurin was dropped off in Sunflower County by Bob Moses in August of 1962, the white mayor of Ruleville, Mississippi approached him and told him "to get out of ...

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 ...

A look at the Freedom Summer's 60th anniversary Three foot soldiers of the "Freedom Summer Project" civil rights movement sat down with DeMarco Morgan to reflect on their experiences during the summer ...

Menu K-12 School and Community Visitors Art Explorers Freedom Summer ‘64 for Self-Guided Classes and Groups Steve Schapiro (American, 1934-2022), We Shall Overcome, 1964. Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — In a signal of LGBTQ+ support and pushback toward Gov. Ron DeSantis’s “Freedom Summer” order, the Sarasota nonprofit Project Pride SRQ on Saturday will be carrying a 700-foot ...

St. Louisans were dancing with delight in Fairground Park during a Juneteenth event on June 19, 2024. Credit: Johnny Gabbert, courtesy of ArchCity Defenders, 2023. “We’re trying to create ways for ...

An event to dedicate the BCRTA bus wrap featuring Freedom Summer and the Western College for Women is Nov. 11 at Shriver Center. Established in 1809, Miami University is located in Oxford, Ohio, with ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The National Civil Rights Museum will host a community symposium on the 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer on Saturday, July 27, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The symposium, a hybrid ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the Rev. Rims Barber and Euvester Simpson – three of the remaining foot ...