Dave Dennis, a Shreveport native and civil rights icon, will speak at LSUS on Friday to discuss his role in the 1964 Summer ...

Also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration effort sponsored by civil rights organizations including ... 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sat: 12-5 P.M. during the Fall ...

When Dave Dennis gave the eulogy at the funeral of James Chaney—who was killed along with two other civil rights workers in the summer of 1964 ... We want our freedom now!

The government eventually settled a civil rights lawsuit stemming ... were murdered in Mississippi during voter registration efforts in 1964's Freedom Summer. Speaking at Chaney's funeral, CORE's ...

To learn more about BTW’s place in civil rights, read: Dave Dennis, Sr. was raised on the Miles Plantation in Shreveport and grew up to become the architect of Freedom Summer in 1964.

white and blue lights of Florida’s “Summer of Freedom.” Not to be a nitpicker but I’m pretty sure that Pride Month is all about freedom in an important way. The Stonewall Inn riots that became the ...