How grassroots organizers risked arrests, arson, and murder to challenge a system designed to lock Black Mississippians out of democracy. Freedom Summer emerged from a political landscape engineered ...
Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom Summer brought together nearly 700 student volunteers, local residents and other civil rights activists to work to ensure that African Americans in Mississippi ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Voting rights advocate, Fannie Lou ...