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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.
Freedom Summer is a 2014 American documentary film, written, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson Jr. [1] [2] The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. [3] It won the Best Documentary award at 2014 Pan African Film Festival. [4] The film had its U.S. television premiere at PBS on June 24, 2014. [5] [6]
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 ...
Ralph Edwin King Jr. (born September 20, 1936), better known as Ed King, is a United Methodist minister, civil rights activist, and retired educator.He was a key figure in historic civil rights events taking place in Mississippi, including the Jackson Woolworth’s sit-in of 1963 and the Freedom Summer project in 1964.
Fannie Lee Chaney (née Roberts; September 4, 1921 – May 22, 2007) [1] was an American baker turned civil rights activist after her son James Chaney was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during the 1964 Freedom Summer rides in Mississippi. After her son's murder, Chaney sued five restaurants in Meridian for racial discrimination.