Dave Dennis, a Shreveport native and civil rights icon, will speak at LSUS on Friday to discuss his role in the 1964 Summer ...

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

Before Civil Rights activist Dave Dennis participated and then helped plan Mississippi’s famous Summer of Freedom in 1964, ...

Charlie Cobb Jr. (WJXT, Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.) Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

"How the reality of Freedom Summer relates to the present day is ... resistance so they could help register Black voters in Mississippi. In the segregated South of its time, their activism was ...

From launching community-driven schools to spearheading desegregation and beyond, Black women have been at the helm of innovating education.

In 1964, just four years after Bridges’ first day, several Civil Rights organizations, including the NAACP, launched the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Civil Rights leader Ella Jo Baker was ...

What started as a one-summer program was stretched into two summers and is now being folded into Unit 5's existing summer school structure because the demand has been so great.

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the ...

>> WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED. >> THE FAMOUS LINE, DELIVERED IN DECEMBER 1964 BY FANNIE LOU HAMER, THE CIVIL RIGHTS ICON FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA, SPEAKING FROM THE HEART IN HER ...