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 ...

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 ...

As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the Rev. Rims Barber and Euvester Simpson – three of the remaining foot ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Shreveport native and civil rights activist was the architect of Freedom Summer in 1964. Here’s his story. Dennis was a force ...

From 1961 to 1964, a multi-racial group of young, trained activists from the North were shuttled by bus to states in the South in an effort to end segregation and register Black voters during the ...

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 ...

Throughout his life, Moses shunned the limelight but, for a time during the first half of the 1960s, it came anyway. As the architect of Freedom Summer in 1964, Moses came to embody one of the Student ...

Steve Schapiro’s haunting photos document that year’s civil rights warriors who traveled from Oxford, Ohio, to Mississippi to support Black voters. Actually, at the time that the Oxford portion of ...

During a 1964 effort to register Black people to vote, known as Freedom Summer, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Miss. In this special “Post Reports” episode, ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Hattiesburg native Raylawni Branch is a civil rights activist and was one of the first two African-American students to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. She ...

Photograph of the audience at the MFDP lecture given by SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh (New York City), Director of the Hattiesburg Project, to Freedom School students in the sanctuary of True Light ...

During the Jim Crow era, Black voters faced intimidation and violence. As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the Rev ...