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 ...

In 1964, 800 volunteers trained on the Western College for Women campus in Oxford as part of the Freedom Summer initiative to register Black voters in the South. The Western College Alumnae ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The Visit Mississippi organization will be in the Hub City Friday to unveil its latest Freedom Trail marker. The marker honors sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner of Hattiesburg ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Shirley Weber plans to take a page from the history books this summer. Weber and get-out-the-vote activists hope this new project will do the same. “We want to get up and down California, ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — In a signal of LGBTQ+ support and pushback toward Gov. Ron DeSantis’s “Freedom Summer” order, the Sarasota nonprofit Project Pride SRQ on Saturday will be carrying a 700-foot ...

As part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964, civil rights groups ran summer schools to educate Black children. We hear from six former students who look back on their experiences. Time now for ...

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 ...

A film festival and art exhibit will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer at Crevasse 22 River House in St. Bernard Parish Sunday (July 21) from noon to 4 p.m. The films "Juneteenth: Faith ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The Palmers Crossing community in Hattiesburg just got a little more colorful. Hattiesburg ...