Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...
From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!
In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, the head of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, spoke in stark detail about how she was brutally beaten in a police cell for seeking the right to vote.
She was 17 years old at the time and said that she was once jailed for her advocacy with civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer ...
both through her SNCC work and as one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the dominant force in Mississippi politics, the pro-segregation ...
The Jackson Citizens' Council, a white supremacy group in Mississippi ... especially since the Freedom Democratic Party is urging Negroes in many counties to boycott the primary.
exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the na-tion with a televised speech that challenged the seating of Mississippi’s all-white delegation to the 1964 Democratic National ...
Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
both through her SNCC work and as one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the dominant force in Mississippi politics, the pro-segregation ...