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Aug 72 min read

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Lessons from ‘The Other Philadelphia’

No one outside of its residents had ever really heard of the small Mississippi town before June 1964. That’s when the stories began.

Aug 74 min read

The Freedom Summer: When Students Rose Up and Changed the World

Today in 2024, we find ourselves at the 60-year anniversary of some of the most influential few months of the Civil Rights Movement.

Aug 73 min read

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 3 – Healing

“Blacks [do] everything. Everything,” Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, declared in awe. And it was true.

Aug 72 min read

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 2 – Danger

It was June 21, 1964 and James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner were setting out for Philadelphia, Mississippi

Aug 75 min read

Freedom Summer 60 Years Later: Chapter 1 – Orientation

Freedom Summer volunteers had an orientation; here’s yours.

Jul 312 min read

So, what's really going on?

We woke up to a new world. But no worries, we’ve got this

Jul 243 min read

Voting Against Memory

There were many times I wasn’t allowed to leave the house because of demonstrations happening downtown.

Feb 5, 20222 min read

Democracy: Where Teens Can Set the Trend

By Samantha Delman My father has affectionately compared my phone to Tony Stark's Arc Reactor - the heart that keeps Iron Man alive - as...