Freedom Summer, also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June...

Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction...

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to simply as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party that existed...

the United States. The most prominent example of Freedom Schools was in Mississippi during the summer of 1964. Despite the Supreme Court's ruling of 1954...

(COFO), as director of Mississippi's Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and as one of the organizers of the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. Dennis worked...

Carolina; and Jackson, Mississippi. The Freedom Rides were mostly focused on events that occurred during the spring and summer of 1961. However, the idea...

voter registration, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Freedom Summer received positive reviews from...

volunteers for the Freedom Summer campaign that sought to register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi and to set up Freedom Schools for black Southerners...

August, Freedom Summer activists worked in 38 local projects scattered across the state, with the largest number concentrated in the Mississippi Delta region...

events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964. It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey as his wife...