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All Posts For - Freedom Summer

MLK Birthday Commemoration: Film Screening

January 8, 2015 Uncategorized Freedom Summer Comments are off for this post

From Freedom Summer to #ICantBreathe ... The struggle continues. January 15 in Palo Alto.

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Video: Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary

August 18, 2014 Videos Freedom Summer Comments are off for this post

June 1964. Over 1,000 volunteers head to Mississippi to register black voters. By August, 4 people were dead, 80 beaten, 1,000 arrested, 67 churches, homes and businesses burned or bombed. This is the story of that summer…

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Mississippi Freedom Summer – A Personal Account

July 9, 2014 Current News civil liberties Comments are off for this post

Once Mississippi had large numbers of black voters, the calculus of politicians changed, and the system could not survive. Legal segregation came to an end. Ordinary people – sharecroppers, domestic workers, janitors – had stood up, together with their outside student supporters, and changed society.

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