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... 38 KB (4,420 words) - 03:50, 3 March 2024 |
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner (redirect from Freedom Summer Murders) Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction... 72 KB (8,354 words) - 00:11, 27 April 2024 |
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to simply as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party that existed... 27 KB (3,354 words) - 06:34, 31 January 2024 |
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... 23 KB (2,734 words) - 07:28, 18 December 2023 |
(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... 14 KB (1,816 words) - 01:19, 3 December 2023 |
Andrew Goodman (activist) (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients) 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... 22 KB (2,366 words) - 22:01, 13 April 2024 |
voter registration, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Freedom Summer received positive reviews from... 5 KB (416 words) - 04:52, 24 November 2023 |
Civil rights movement (redirect from Southern Freedom Movement) August, Freedom Summer activists worked in 38 local projects scattered across the state, with the largest number concentrated in the Mississippi Delta region... 295 KB (34,006 words) - 15:48, 9 April 2024 |
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... 4 KB (302 words) - 18:17, 5 March 2024 |
students like Walker to go to Mississippi as part of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)'s Mississippi Freedom Summer. After orientation/training... 20 KB (1,842 words) - 16:37, 7 October 2022 |
celebrations honoring movement veterans of Freedom Summer from June 23–29. During the trip, the Mississippi Freedom Project conducts oral history interviews... 10 KB (1,055 words) - 20:44, 25 April 2023 |
Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It may also refer to: Freedom Summer (book), a 2001 children's... 506 bytes (99 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2020 |
traveled to Mississippi after the bodies of the three civil rights workers working for the Congress of Racial Equality and Freedom Summer project were... 5 KB (372 words) - 23:34, 20 December 2023 |
Civil Rights Movement and the director of the largest project in Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Hattiesburg Project. Leigh was born in 1934, in Bridgeport... 6 KB (894 words) - 14:07, 11 July 2022 |
Chester, Pennsylvania. Summer – Freedom Summer – movement for voter education and registration in the Mississippi. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party... 65 KB (7,591 words) - 18:58, 17 April 2024 |
During the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, Belafonte bankrolled the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, flying to Mississippi that August... 101 KB (9,516 words) - 18:02, 15 April 2024 |
of the Children's Defense Fund. During the Mississippi Freedom Summer she headed LDF's Jackson, Mississippi office and handled more than 120 cases. Jean... 53 KB (6,503 words) - 19:11, 8 March 2024 |
Carpenters for Christmas (category African-American history of Mississippi) bombings and arson attacks in Mississippi during and following the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964. During the summer of 1964, the Council of Federated... 12 KB (1,164 words) - 02:25, 16 November 2023 |
the state as a volunteer for the Mississippi Caravan of Music. The Caravan worked in conjunction with Freedom Summer, a volunteer-based campaign that... 7 KB (676 words) - 00:35, 24 April 2024 |
Meridian (novel) (section Freedom Summer) segregated lunch counters and what became known as Freedom Summer—an effort to register black voters in Mississippi. Over a thousand volunteers, mostly white college... 10 KB (1,275 words) - 16:08, 29 December 2022 |
Dorie Ladner (category Activists from Mississippi) was a key organizer of the Freedom Summer Project, which promoted voter registration for African Americans in Mississippi. She participated in the March... 15 KB (1,371 words) - 21:00, 29 March 2024 |
The Freedom Vote, also known as the Freedom Ballot, Mississippi Freedom Vote, Freedom Ballot Campaign, or the Mississippi Freedom Ballot, was a 1963 mock... 7 KB (599 words) - 01:37, 24 June 2023 |
Fannie Lou Hamer (category African-American history of Mississippi) the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Hamer also organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer along... 65 KB (7,053 words) - 17:07, 24 April 2024 |
performance by Miles Davis at Philharmonic Hall to benefit the Mississippi Freedom Summer was released on two albums, My Funny Valentine and Four & More... 27 KB (2,581 words) - 10:14, 7 March 2024 |
Carl Davidson was elected vice president. Jane Adams, former Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteer and SDS campus traveler in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and... 63 KB (8,316 words) - 13:30, 3 April 2024 |
Marian Wright Edelman (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients) the civil rights movement and representing activists during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. She also helped establish the Head Start program. Edelman... 23 KB (2,027 words) - 18:19, 21 April 2024 |
org/digital/collection/p15932coll2/id/3794 Hartford, Bruce (2014). "Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964" (PDF). Civil Rights Movement Archive. pp. 51–56. Retrieved... 53 KB (6,603 words) - 07:04, 19 April 2024 |