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WESSON – “Stand Up!” : Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964” is currently on exhibit through Feb. 28 in Copiah-Lincoln Community College’s Evelyn Oswalt Library located on the Wesson Campus. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Exhibit hours are Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Fridays.
In 1964, “Freedom Summer” made Mississippi the central battleground of the Civil Rights Movement. Hundreds of northern students, most of them white, joined black Mississippians to register voters, conduct Freedom Schools, and promote civil rights. Throughout the summer, project staff endured threats, arrests, beatings, bombings, and murder.
“Stand Up” looks at the events of that memorable and violent summer. It is accompanied by an original film incorporating historic film footage taken during the summer of 1954 as well as Educating for Democracy, a collection of primary source documents related to Freedom Summer. The companion exhibit “Murder in Neshoba” examines the disappearance and murder of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County.
“Stand Up!”: Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 is produced by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. For more information about this exhibit or the traveling exhibits program, contact the Department of Archives and History at (601) 576-6997.
