University of Mississippi eGrove Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Theses Honors College) 2016 Freedom Fighters: Stories from Freedom Summer 1964 Anna McCollum University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis Part of the Journalism Studies Commons Recommended Citation McCollum, Anna, "Freedom Fighters: Stories from Freedom Summer 1964" (2016). Honors Theses. 80. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/80 This Undergraduate Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College) at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. © 2016 Anna Elizabeth McCollum ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank all of those who counseled, aided and supported me throughout the process of completing my thesis as well as those willing to share their stories: Dr. Kathleen Wickham, Professor Bill Rose, Professor Curtis Wilkie, Mr. Roscoe Jones, Mr. MacArthur Cotton, Mrs. Flonzie Brown-Wright, Mrs. Patti Miller, Mrs. Alice Robertson and Mrs. Cynthia Palmer. Thank you to my friends and family who cheered me on along the way, and thank you, John Corbin Evans, for your invaluable assistance and presence for the duration of this journey. iii ABSTRACT ANNA ELIZABETH MCCOLLUM: Freedom Fighters: Stories from Freedom Summer 1964 (Under the direction of Kathleen Wickham) Freedom Summer was a project conducted in Mississippi in 1964 as part of the civil rights movement. It involved hundreds of volunteers and members of the Council of Federated Organizations working to promote education and voter registration among the African American community across the state.