The Canton Freedom House, a key site in the Civil Rights Movement, is the latest addition to the Mississippi Freedom Trail, according to news release from Visit Mississippi and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
The house in Canton was a headquarters for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) during the 1960s. Canton residents George and Rembert Washington rented the home to CORE organizer and Freedom Rider George Raymond, providing him a safe base for organizing protests and voter registration drives.
In 1964, white supremacists fired shots into the house and attempted to bomb it. Civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. and James Meredith, used the home as a safe location and planning site…