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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of the NAACP on June 24, 1964, in Washington, D.C., protest the disappearance of three civil rights activists from Mississippi. (Archive Photos/Getty Images) As we approach the 60th ...

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 ...

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 ...