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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.
Andrew Goodman (November 23, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.
Miami University's now-defunct Western Program included historical lectures about Freedom Summer and the events of the massacre. [citation needed] There is a memorial on the Western campus of Miami University. It includes dozen of headlines about the murder, and plaques honoring and detailing the victims' life and work.
He joined more than 200 attendees, and more than 1,000 virtually attending online, for two days of the Freedom Summer 60 conference, a celebration of that important summer in 1964.
With this election seen as a protest action to dramatize the denial of their constitutional voting rights, close to 80,000 people cast freedom ballots for an integrated slate of candidates. [4] In response, James W. Wright, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and Bob Moses, [5] founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964. As a result ...
Freedom Summer was born out of the need to get Black people registered to vote in Mississippi. Hattiesburg remembers Freedom Summer 60 years later.
Hamer was born as Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi.She was the last of the 20 children of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend. [3]In 1919, the Townsends moved to Ruleville, Mississippi, to work as sharecroppers on W. D. Marlow's plantation. [4]
Eventually, Carmichael was transferred to the infamous Parchman Penitentiary in Sunflower County, Mississippi, along with other Freedom Riders. [4] [19] He gained notoriety as a witty and hard-nosed leader among the prisoners. [1] He served 49 days with other activists at Parchman. At 19, Carmichael was the youngest detainee in the summer of 1961.