freedom summer

Yesterday, the ISJL hosted students from Operation Understanding, an organization whose mission is to develop a group of young African ...

I am coming up on my one-year anniversary of working at the Jewish Women’s Archive.  It’s a pleasant shock that ...

This month I made a big move. After a year spent in Jerusalem, I moved to Jackson, Mississippi to serve ...

This is my first week as the historian for the ISJL. I’ve been so warmly welcomed here—and am already finding connections ...

 From my adopted hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, I’ve been thinking about Freedom Summer.Now that we are a month away from ...

Do you know Mr. Moses? Mr. Bob Moses?I’ve always associated Bob Moses’s name with civil rights and, specifically, his well-known ...

The Civil Rights movement is once again front and center here in Mississippi. Last year was the 50th anniversary of ...

 November 9, 2013, marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” It is the night many point ...

This blog is written by Sam Gardner, who just finished his summer internship in the ISJL’s history department. The Neshoba ...