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 ...

With the end of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and Milwaukee, now comes time for both action and historical reflection. In 1960, Chicago native Bob Moses travelled from ...

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 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Shreveport native and civil rights activist was the architect of Freedom Summer in 1964. Here’s his story. Dennis was a force ...

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, ...

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, ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Glenda Funchess remembers the summer of 1964. She and Mattie Lindsey were just kids when they took part in ‘Freedom Summer’ to help African Americans in Mississippi ...

Steve Schapiro’s haunting photos document that year’s civil rights warriors who traveled from Oxford, Ohio, to Mississippi to support Black voters. Actually, at the time that the Oxford portion of ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Hattiesburg native Raylawni Branch is a civil rights activist and was one of the first two African-American students to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. She ...

It is the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer. The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis will host a symposium on the 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer on July 27 from 10:00 ...

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 ...