PEARL, Miss. (WLBT) – It was Freedom Summer night at the Mississippi Braves game at Trustmark Park in Pearl on Saturday.
Two Mississippi Museums director Michael Morris threw the first pitch of the game.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History commemorated the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer by showing video clips, many of which are from WLBT, between innings.
The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, known as Freedom Summer, was an initiative organized by civil rights groups to help increase the number of black voters in Mississippi.
Organizers gathered college students from across the nation and invited them to Mississippi to help Black citizens register to vote and teach them in Freedom Schools.
The work of these civil right workers, combined with local residents and media coverage, eventually led to legislation that helped dismantle Jim Crow segregation.
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