Freedom Summer

This 1994 documentary brings the passions and agonies of Mississippi’s voter-registration drive into the present tense.

Freedom Summer in the segregationist heart of the Deep South.

The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America.

She’s mostly remembered for one famous speech. Her actual legacy is far greater than that.

The late civil-rights leader understood that grassroots organizing was key to delivering political power to Black Americans in the South.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.

Mississippi may be the nation’s most religious state, but it is also far more complex and dynamic than many commentators admit.

What my father saw in Mississippi.

Dick Gregory was an activist, comedian, and trendsetter for Black vegans.

“Mississippi’s white Appalachians may have owned the earth, but they could never own the past.”

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.

The Friends of the SNCC published the story of the struggle for freedom in the 1960s.

Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most important civil rights icons. But her health issues show that racism isn't just a social disease, it's a physical one.

A southerner discovers the inaccuracy of the the myths he grew up with, and slowly comes to terms with his connection to the Civil War.

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."