The NJ marker commemorates the role Atlantic City played in supporting the Mississippi Freedom Party, which made a historic appearance at the 1964 Democratic National Convention held at Jersey's ...

A Hattiesburg woman who set the stage for integrating the national Democratic Conventions was honored with a Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker earlier this month. The Mississippi Freedom Trail marker ...

New Jersey now has its very own marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail, the first state outside Mississippi to be included. The Freedom Trail is part of the United States Civil Rights Trail and ...

Fannie Lou Hamer speaks to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the Capitol in Washington, in this Sept. 17, 1965 file photo. Hamer and others used Christmas carols to proclaim ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats' presidential nomination Thursday, exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a televised ...

Euvester Simpson was barely 18 in August 1964 when she boarded a bus in Mississippi bound for the Democratic National Convention in New Jersey. She was seated next to Fannie Lou Hamer, a 46-year-old ...

As the Democratic National Convention unfolds in Chicago, dozens gathered in Atlantic City to unveil a plaque honoring a historic event that occurred 60 years ago inside Boardwalk Hall. It was on Aug.

Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom Summer brought together nearly 700 student volunteers, local residents and other civil rights activists to work to ensure that African Americans in Mississippi ...

During the Jim Crow era, Black voters faced intimidation and violence. As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the Rev ...

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977. The Delta ...

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