Mississippi Freedom Summer Collection 1964-2010 1964-2010
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Congress of Racial Equality
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Downtown CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a chapter of the CORE national organization, was formed in March 1963 and remained active until the end 1966. Based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it was one of nearly a dozen New York City local chapters organized in the early 1960s. Its founders included Rita and Michael Schwerner (the latter one of the group of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964), and its members included radical pacifist Igal Rodenko, anarchi...
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi....
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...
Western College for Women
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Mississippi Freedom Summer
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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 tha...
