Dorie Ladner
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Dorie Ann Ladner was an American civil rights activist and social worker. Along with her sister Joyce, she was a leading community organizer in Mississippi for the National Association for the Advance
Ladner in 2015
Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer, was a campaign launched by American civil rights activists in June 1964 to register as many African-American voters as possible in the state o
SNCC advert for the Freedom Summer
A stained glass window honoring the three slain activists in Sage Chapel, Cornell University.
Wisconsin Historical Society archivists described this as "a moving letter fragment by Lipsky (?) describing the violence that is the essence of Mississippi to him"; this letter was probably written by Michael Lipsky, who was assigned to the Freedom House at Holly Springs
Mt. Zion Church state history marker near Philadelphia, Mississippi