6 Aug 1964 Jahr - Freedom Summer

Beschreibung:

-Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
-Local residents
Fannie Lou Hamer
Amzie Moore
Victoria Gray Adams
Lawrence Guyot
-CORE member
George Raymond Jr.
-SNCC members
Bob Moses
Hollis Watkins
Unita Blackwell
-NAACP member
Aaron Henry
-State of Mississippi
Ross Barnett, governor
Congressman
James Eastland, senator
-MSSC member
Rex Armistead
-Klan member
Samuel Bowers
-(Cause) Blacks had been cut off from voting since the turn of the century due to barriers to voter registration and other laws.
-(effects) set up dozens of Freedom Schools, Freedom Houses, and community centers in small towns throughout Mississippi to aid the local black population.