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Opinion: Lessons from 1964’s Mississippi Freedom Summer
The recent arson that destroyed Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.'s only synagogue, recalls that state's dark history of violence ...
It’s well-known that 1964’s Freedom Summer, as it came to be called, was an interracial effort, with many white college students joining African Americans to register voters in Mississippi. It was the ...
In 1964 the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee launched the Freedom Summer campaign in an effort to increase African-American voter registration in ...
As Black History Month heads into its final week, there is a piece of profound history in our region that overlooks a hillside on Miami's western campus.Some would say it is a marker that should not ...
Charlie Cobb Jr. (WJXT, Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.) Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote ...
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 ...
In the summer of 1964, my father's brother Roy rode through Philadelphia, Miss., in a white Plymouth that had painted on its side a white hand shaking a black hand. He made that bold ride after three ...
PEABODY — Sophomores at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School attended a presentation at the school Tuesday morning featuring Mark Levy, a leader of a Mississippi Freedom School and a volunteer in the ...
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - In Hattiesburg, art and storytelling are coming together, just in time for Black History Month. With the help of local leaders Chris and Taryn Holzinger have been hard at ...
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