WASHINGTON – Charles McLaurin initially disagreed with the plan to bring college students – many of them white, many from the North ‒ to Mississippi 60 years ago to help register Black residents to ...

If you were a white person visiting Mississippi in the summer of 1964, you were risking your life. You were if you were participating in the Mississippi Summer Project, later known as Freedom Summer.

FOR US TO EXPLAIN THE PROGRAM. ALEXIS. YEAH, JENNIFER. RICK. ON THE HEELS OF JUNETEENTH, THE ONLY HBCU IN LOUISVILLE IS HONORING ANOTHER LEGACY. THE LIVES LOST AND THE LABOR OF THE MISSISSIPPI SUMMER ...

June 21, 1964, was an ordinary day for many Americans, but for three civil rights workers in Mississippi, it was the day their lives would end, and the fires of the civil rights movement were stoked, ...

With the end of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and Milwaukee, now comes time for both action and historical reflection. In 1960, Chicago native Bob Moses travelled from ...

INDIANOLA ― The morning after Charles McLaurin was dropped off in Sunflower County by Bob Moses in August of 1962, the white mayor of Ruleville, Mississippi approached him and told him "to get out of ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The Visit Mississippi organization will be in the Hub City Friday to unveil its latest Freedom Trail marker. The marker honors sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner of Hattiesburg ...

Last summer, when the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, the decision dealt a major blow to the courageous efforts of thousands of civil rights activists who, ...

Civil rights activists, youth organizers and religious leaders from around the country will travel south this week to participate in the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference. Dubbed ...

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 ...