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Bookmark or Share- Risking Everything: The Fight for Black Voting RightsThis gallery explores the history of the struggle for Black voting rights, culminating in Freedom Summer of 1964. It details the key events of Freedom Summer, including the battle for voting rights, the establishment of Freedom Schools, and the formation of a new political party in Mississippi. Additionally, it connects this fight for voting rights to Milwaukee and Wisconsin, home to America ...
- Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner - WikipediaThe murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement.
- Freedom Summer ‑ Definition, Murders & Results | HISTORYFreedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers...
- Freedom Summer (1964) - BlackpastFreedom Summer (June-August, 1964) was a nonviolent effort by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi’s segregated political system.
- Freedom Summer 1964 - Zinn Education ProjectFreedom Summer 1964. Profile. Summer initiative to register African American voters in Mississippi. Time Periods: 20th Century, 1961. Themes: Voting Rights, African American, Civil Rights Movements. Freedom Summer was organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of the Mississippi branches of the four major civil ...
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