WhereDaily News: Civil Rights Leaders, Activists Return for Miss. Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary
JACKSON, MS--(Marketwired - May 29, 2014) - Dr. Robert P. Moses, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and director of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, on Monday, June 2, will mark the 50th anniversary of the pivotal 1964 Civil Rights effort that drew hundreds of civil rights activists and college student volunteers to Mississippi from across America to register African American voters and promote civil rights.