Freedom Summer 1964

1. Visit American Radio Works site about Oh Freedom Over Me to listen to a radio piece about Freedom Summer. There is also a slide show with pictures about the activities that summer and the three civil rights workers.

2. Read the New York Times June 22, 1964 reporting on the disappearance of Michael Schwerner, James E. Cheney and Andrew Goodman.

3. Spirituals played a large role in the Civil Rights Movement. Listen to the members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) singing a spiritual.

4. Read the full text of the 1965 Voting Rights Act signed by President Johnson. It outlawed many discriminatory voting practices that had been adopted in the southern states, including literacy tests as a prerequisite.

5. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) was one the student groups behind Feedom Summer. It is still active today. Browse their website to see what they are involved in now. Listen to the video to get a sense of history and find out where they started. This page talks about the murders.

6. Visit the Newseum's online exhibit Images of Hate and Hope to see historic pictures taken that summer in Neshoba County, Mississippi.

7. Take time to browse through the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. There are images, oral histories, and documents preserved here.

8. The U.S. versus Cecil Price, et al. trial in 1967 was the first trial related to the murders. This site goes through that trial and the 2005 trial of Edgar Ray Killen. The 1967 trial is also known as The Mississippi Burning Trial, after the movie that was loosely based on events related to the murder.

9. Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives is a website full of interesting things related to the battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.

10. This site is full of images and interesting information. Find 1964 on the timeline and find the link Freedom Summer Events. Very interesting photos.