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Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Lessons from ‘The Other Philadelphia’

No one outside of its residents had ever really heard of the small Mississippi town before June 1964. That’s when the stories began.

The Freedom Summer: When Students Rose Up and Changed the World

Today in 2024, we find ourselves at the 60-year anniversary of some of the most influential few months of the Civil Rights Movement.

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 3 – Healing

“Blacks [do] everything. Everything,” Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, declared in awe. And it was true.

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 2 – Danger

It was June 21, 1964 and James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner were setting out for Philadelphia, Mississippi

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 1 – Orientation

Freedom Summer volunteers had an orientation; here’s yours.

Voting Against Memory

There were many times I wasn’t allowed to leave the house because of demonstrations happening downtown.

How School Might Help Prepare Youth for Real Life

By Cassidy Whaley Over the years I've come to realize a striking truth: in school, students often spend as much time questioning the...