Slide Show: Matt Herron '53

Freedom School, Mileston. Mississippi Summer Project, 1964: Summer volunteers, SNCC workers and local students singing freedom songs at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.

Freedom School, Mileston. Mississippi Summer Project, 1964: Edie Black, volunteer from Smith College, teaches freedom school at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.

Freedom School, Mileston. Mississippi Summer Project, 1964: Edie Black, volunteer from Smith College, with students she teaches in a freedom school at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.

Freedom Summer: living conditions, Mississippi summer of 1964: Local teenagers dancing to the jukebox at Beddingfield's store near Mileston. Foreground: Abe Osheroff and Jim Boebel, summer volunteers who were building the Mileston Community Center.

Community Center Construction, Freedom Summer 1964: Summer volunteer carpenter Jim Boebel and a local resident post a shotgun watch at the community center against a fire-bomb threat by local whites. Threats were common that summer and local men took turns guarding the community every night.

Valley View, Miss. Service at country church: St. Paul's Missionary Baptist Church, summer '64. Congregation members listening to Rev. Percy Gordon. Man in the foreground is a deacon.