Education Aug 08 Need persists for new generation of Freedom Schools, 50 years after first summer By PBS NewsHour
Education Aug 08 When Mississippi schools wouldn’t integrate, Freedom Schools opened doors In the summer of 1964, hundreds of out-of-state volunteers joined local activists in Mississippi to increase voter registration among disenfranchised African Americans in the state. Many of the volunteers worked in the dozens of newly created Freedom Schools. Herbert Randall,… By April Brown, Mike Fritz
Nation Jun 24 Watch 50 years later, ‘Freedom Summer’ leaders recall pivotal fight against discrimination A new documentary “Freedom Summer” looks back to the deeply segregated Mississippi of 1964, and the young people who came from around the country to lend a hand in the struggle against racism. For a look back at the moment,… By PBS NewsHour
Nation Jun 24 Remembering ‘Freedom Summer,’ the civil rights effort that changed America 50 years ago Fifty years ago this summer, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. But that didn’t come without a price. It was the era of the Freedom Summer, a brave and bloody campaign to get blacks registered… By Lyndsay Knecht, KERA
Nation Apr 18 The Freedom Summer Killings James Earl Chaney lived in Mississippi his entire life. Michael Schwerner spent six months in the state and Andrew Goodman had been there only a day. By PBS NewsHour