Freedom Summer ‑ Definition, Murders & Results - HISTORY
WEBOct 29, 2009 · Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers...
Freedom Summer - Wikipedia
WEBFreedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer (sometimes referred to as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project), was a campaign launched by American civil rights activists in June 1964 to register as many African-American voters as possible in the state of Mississippi.
Freedom Summer | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and …
WEBFreedom Summer marked one of the last major interracial civil rights efforts of the 1960s, as the movement entered a period of divisive conflict that would draw even sharper lines between the goals of King and those of the younger, more militant faction of the black freedom struggle.
Freedom Summer (1964) - Blackpast
WEBJun 23, 2016 · Freedom Summer (June-August, 1964) was a nonviolent effort by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi’s segregated political system.
Freedom Summer - National Archives
WEBOct 29, 2020 · The Freedom Summer Project resulted in various meetings, protests, freedom schools, freedom housing, freedom libraries, and a collective rise in awareness of voting rights and disenfranchisement experienced by African Americans in Mississippi.
What Was Freedom Summer? | American Experience | PBS
WEBWhen Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest.
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WEBApr 8, 2023 · A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.
Remembering 'Freedom Summer,' the civil rights effort that …
WEBJun 24, 2014 · It was the era of the Freedom Summer, a brave and bloody campaign to get blacks registered to vote in Mississippi. Over 10 weeks, 37 churches were bombed or burned. Four civil rights workers were...
What Was Freedom Summer? | American Experience | PBS
WEBWhen Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an...
50 Years Ago, Students Fought For Black Rights During 'Freedom Summer'
WEBJun 23, 2014 · A PBS documentary about the 1964 movement to get blacks to vote in Mississippi airs Tuesday. Freedom Summer director Stanley Nelson and organizer Charles Cobb discuss the dangers the students...