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Freedom Summer is a children's picture book written by Deborah Wiles and illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue. Originally published as a hardcover edition in 2001, the book is now available as a paperback from Simon & Schuster .
Freedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer (sometimes referred to as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project), was a campaign launched by American civil rights activists in June 1964 to register as many African-American voters as possible in the state of Mississippi.
It tells the sixties story of the civil rights movement through the eyes of 12-year-old Sunny Fairchild, who lives in Greenwood, Mississippi during Freedom Summer in 1964. Jo Ellen Chapman, a character from book one of the sixties trilogy, Countdown, appears in Revolution as a Freedom Worker for SNCC in Greenwood.
He joined more than 200 attendees, and more than 1,000 virtually attending online, for two days of the Freedom Summer 60 conference, a celebration of that important summer in 1964.
Such schools were projects of civil rights activists during the Freedom Summer of 1964, a campaign to draw attention to the oppression of Black Mississippians and to register African American ...
David J. Dennis is a civil rights activist whose involvement began in the early 1960s. Dennis grew up in the segregated area of Omega, Louisiana. [1] He worked as a co-director of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), as director of Mississippi's Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and as one of the organizers of the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. [2]
Among the events depicted in the film is the Freedom Summer of 1964, in which three civil rights workers were slain. Freedom on My Mind combines personal interviews, rare archival film and television footage, authentic Mississippi Delta blues, and Movement gospel songs. It emphasizes the strategic brilliance of Mississippi's young, black ...
Henry and Hamer were recruiting students under the age of 21, who with the permission of their parents, would participate in the Freedom Summer project to help register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi and to set up Freedom Schools. [4] In June 1964, Goodman left New York to teach at a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) training session ...