Other sources

Freedom Summer 1964

http://40two.info/barge/seminar/june21.html

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

Visit the 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.

Read the New York Times June 22, 1964, reporting on the disappearance of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James E. Cheney and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964.

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.

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.

Browse through the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive for images, oral histories, and documents.