Inspired by those volunteers seven decades ago, Wesleyan University and a network of hundreds of schools and allied ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Established in 1809, Miami University is located in Oxford, Ohio, with regional campuses in Hamilton and Middletown, a learning center in West Chester, and a European study center in Luxembourg.

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - In 1964, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, played a huge role in the Freedom Summer Civil Rights Movement. The movement aimed to increase African American votes at the polls. Last ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - During Black History Month, markers across Hattiesburg are drawing attention to the people and places connected to the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign. But for some residents, ...

The Freedom Schools curriculums developed in 1964 remain urgently needed, especially in our era of book bans and backlash.

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 ...