Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...

but she is most well known for co-founding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Passionately fighting for equal voting ...

Later that summer, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sent a delegation to the Democratic National Convention, where Fannie Lou Hamer testified on national television about the abuse she ...

This commentary by Dr. Willie J. Greer Kimmons is the first of a two-part series on prominent Black men and women. This week ...

Pride, self-defense, and economic independence became rallying cries for future generations. The 1964 defeat of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party proved Malcolm right – many activists began ...