Civil rights veterans and members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Bob Moses, left, and Larry Rubin discusses the implications of Freedom Summer during a national youth summit hosted by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss. More than 400 students at a dozen locations in the U.S. watched the webcast in which veterans of the civil rights movement and others discussed Freedom Summer, the 1964 project that challenged segregation by pushing to register black Mississippi voters. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Civil rights veterans and members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Bob Moses, left, and Larry Rubin discusses the implications of Freedom Summer during a national youth summit hosted by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss. More than 400 students at a dozen locations in the U.S. watched the webcast in which veterans of the civil rights movement and others discussed Freedom Summer, the 1964 project that challenged segregation by pushing to register black Mississippi voters. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Longtime civil rights activist Bob Moses is scheduled to speak Monday at the opening of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s new exhibit “Stand Up!”: Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964.”
Moses, a director of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, will speak at noon at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building in Jackson.
Drawing on photographs, artifacts, documents, and film footage of events during the “long, hot summer.” A replica school room modeled from photographs of Freedom Schools will give visitors an idea of the conditions volunteers and students worked under.
It also tells the story of the murdered Civil Rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner and the creation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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