Fifty years ago this week on Aug. 4, 1964, the bodies of three courageous freedom fighters—James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24—were found buried in a dam near Philadelphia, ...

It’s well-known that 1964’s Freedom Summer, as it came to be called, was an interracial effort, with many white college students joining African Americans to register voters in Mississippi. It was the ...

Commentary: Chief Justice John Roberts has tried for years to weaken the Voting Rights Act. With a coming Supreme Court ...

If you were a white person visiting Mississippi in the summer of 1964, you were risking your life. You were if you were participating in the Mississippi Summer Project, later known as Freedom Summer.

The conviction yesterday of Edgar Ray Killen for manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers – James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman – in Mississippi 41 years ago is no less ...

A ‘petnup’ might be good idea for spouses with furry friends Welcome to Monday, the 57th anniversary of the slayings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. -- Ever since the 1960s, the families of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman have desperately longed for the day when someone would be brought to justice in the ...

It’s been 60 years since Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner made their fateful journey from Oxford, Ohio to Mississippi to register Black Southerners to vote as part of Freedom Summer, ...

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