freedom summer
November 1, 2024 -
In the fourth story in our CAROLINADAZE series, Benjamin Barber explores the history of Freedom Summer and the growing importance of local organizing and youth engagement in cultivating democracy in North Carolina and the South.
June 21, 2024 -
On the sixtieth anniversary of Freedom Summer, read a collection of work from Southern Exposure about the Mississippi Movement and its aftermath.
August 29, 2019 -
They are turning to the courts to challenge a controversial new state law that imposes civil penalties on groups and individuals who submit incomplete voter registration forms. The law was passed after a successful effort to register more young people and African Americans for the 2018 midterm election.
November 3, 2017 -
Before landing in legal trouble for his actions related to advising a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine, President Trump's former campaign chair was a GOP operative who worked to build support for the party among whites by appealing to their racism against African Americans.
January 27, 2017 -
Since 2005, Nissan workers in Canton, Mississippi — a city with deep roots in the civil rights movement — have been fighting for the right to unionize. This week they are taking their cause across the South with days of action in at least five cities.
June 23, 2016 -
This week, 52 years to the day after three young men were murdered in Mississippi while working to expand voting rights to African Americans, a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a challenge to North Carolina's restrictive new voting law that disproportionately impacts African Americans.
December 1, 2002 -
A SNCC project coordinator talks about her experiences during Freedom Summer in Mississippi, 1964.
