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University of Missouri

Famous Trials: The Mississippi Burning Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
Updated detailed account of the case of United States versus Cecil Price et al., also known as the "Mississippi Burning trial", a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to...
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Article
NBC

Nbc Learn: Free Resources: Finishing the Dream: Learning From Civil Rights Era

For Students 9th - 10th
Over one hundred video clips, culled from NBS News archives, document events and issues of the civil rights era, from 1954-68. Also includes contemporary perspectives on civil rights, with videos of town hall-style conversations about...
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Freedom Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extensive collection of documents, images, digital collections, and teacher resources related to the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Civil rights activists traveled throughout Mississippi registering rural Mississippians...
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Other

Core: Freedom Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
A narrative account of Freedom Summer and the murders of 3 Mississippi black members of CORE because of their support for the Civil Rights Movement.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

For Students 9th - 10th
This ibiblio.org site gives the six-year history of this college based group that supported the civil rights movement and tells of its nonviolent philosophy.
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Handout
Stanford University

King Institute Resources: Freedom Summer (1964)

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of one of the last major interracial civil rights efforts of the 1960s to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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Other

Civil Rights Movement 1955 1965: Mississippi & Freedom Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at Mississippi in the early 1960s to understand why the focus of African American voter registration targeted that state. Read about the organization and implementation of the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964. See also the...
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Other

Civil Rights Documentation Project: 1964: Freedom Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief description of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and listen to the comments of some of the civil rights activists who participated in the project in 1964.
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Handout
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Chronology of the Mississippi Burning Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a colorful chart detailing the date by date progression of the Mississippi Burning Trial.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Freedom Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
During the summer of 1964, hundreds of college students flooded Mississippi to register African Americans to vote.
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BBC

Bbc: Three Civil Rights Activists Found Dead

For Students 9th - 10th
Article from the day in 1964 when the bodies of three civil rights workers were found. The deaths were attributed to the Ku Klux Klan.