In 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project was a key initiative within Civil Rights Movement such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), recruited college students from across the United States to travel to Mississippi, shining a spotlight on conditions there while registering voters, building community centers and teaching at "freedom schools' in that state. Three college students, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were brutally murdered during their activism as they pursued the goals of Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Before going to Mississippi, these students trained in Oxford, Ohio at Western College for three weeks. The campus of Western College is now part of Miami University.
Freedom Summer Text Collection
Freedom Summer AV Collection
From the guide to the Mississippi Freedom Summer Collection, 1964-2010, 1964-2010, (Miami University)
