"Voting gives people a voice in their communities. In the past, racist laws and practices kept Black American voices silent. No place was more af

"In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundr

An account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.