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.

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

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The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan formed a branch in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1920 and nearly took control of the state in 1922.

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

Shutterstock Walking the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail Mississippi was one of the epicenters of the civil rights struggle in ...

The mission of creating meaningful educational opportunity has just begun with the passage of Tennessee's Education Freedom Act.

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

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...

Scheduled activities include a film presentation and lecture on the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union called, “On Strike: MS Freedom Labor Union and Strike City.” The MFLU was an organization ...

Freedom Way, Downtown. In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till visited his uncle in Mississippi. He was abducted, tortured and brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman outside ...