Freedom School, Mileston, Mississippi, August 1964. Photograph by Matt Herron. Edie Black, a volunteer from Smith College, teaches at a Freedom School in Mileston, a community of independent Black farmers in the Mississippi Delta. © 1976, Matt Herron / Photograph provided by TakeStock.

Freedom School Discussion, 1964. Photograph by Herbert Randall. Four Freedom School students engage in discussion while sitting at a table in the basement room of an African American church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer. Alice Adams (right) is the only person identified in the photograph. M351 Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs, Historical Manuscripts, The University of Southern Mississippi.

Freedom School, 1964. Photograph by Ken Thompson. Two girls looking out the window of a Freedom School. © The General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, Inc. Used with permission of Global Ministries.