In 2023, let us revisit the need for ‘Freedom Schools’
In 1964, during the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) “Freedom…
Freedom Summer
Dispatches from Freedom Summer: The ghosts of Greenwood
Black and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters march on the boardwalk at…
The phenomenal women of Freedom Summer
Joyce Ladner BY DIAMOND SHARP, The Root Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom…
Who were the white folks of Freedom Summer?
BY: DIAMOND SHARP, THE ROOT From SNCC leaders to Freedom School organizers, these are…
Freedom Summer – 50 years
BY GEORGE E. CURRY, NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer is being…
‘Freedom Summer’ friends, 50 years later
During the ‘Freedom Summer,’ activists from the North traveled to Mississippi…