Dispatches from Freedom Summer
Race Then and Now
In 1964, whites and blacks joined to, as some put it, drag Mississippi back into the United States. Violence erupted. Lives were lost. But change was wrought, too.
Keep on Pushing
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, two Mississippi sisters press the fight for voting rights.
Interview With Civil Rights Legend John Lewis: Audio
Listen to Nikole Hannah-Jones interview barrier-breaking Freedom Rider and longtime congressman John Lewis.
Long a Force for Progress, a Freedom Summer Legend Looks Back
Georgia Congressman John Lewis talks about what changed — and didn’t — because of the movement he helped to lead 50 years ago.
When Freedom Summer Landed in White America’s Living Rooms
An iconic civil rights print hung in one rural Maine home and helped shape a family’s commitment to justice.
A Brutal Loss, but an Enduring Conviction
Rita Bender, 22 when her husband Michael Schwerner was killed by the Klan in Mississippi in 1964, says challenges remain in the fight for racial justice.
Ghosts of Greenwood
A reporter goes to Mississippi and encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights.
Dispatches From Freedom Summer
A variety of voices revisit the events and lessons of Mississippi’s long hot summer of 1964.
