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Freedom 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.
In the fall of 1964, student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and were soliciting donations for causes connected to the Civil Rights Movement. According to existing rules at the time ...
Michael Schwerner. The Schwerners moved to Meridian, Mississippi in January 1964. [2]She was a teacher, and the two worked at a freedom school and registering black voters. The summer of 1964, known as "Freedom Summer" was an endeavor to register more black voters in the deep south.
Freedom Summer was born out of the need to get Black people registered to vote in Mississippi. Hattiesburg remembers Freedom Summer 60 years later.
The Freedom Summer 60 conference, held in Indianola, celebrates the activists and volunteers who participated and the project's impact.
The Mississippi Freedom Schools were developed as part of the 1964 Freedom Summer civil rights project, a massive effort that focused on voter registration drives and educating Mississippi students for social change.
Henry and Hamer were recruiting students under the age of 21, who with the permission of their parents, would participate in the Freedom Summer project to help register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi and to set up Freedom Schools. [4] In June 1964, Goodman left New York to teach at a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) training session ...
At least 30 Freedom Schools, with close to 3,500 students, were established, and 28 community centers were set up. [126] Over the course of the Summer Project, some 17,000 Mississippi blacks attempted to become registered voters in defiance of the red tape and forces of white supremacy arrayed against them—only 1,600 (less than 10%) succeeded.