1 agos 1964 año - Freedom Summer

Descripción:

• Voter registration drive
• Little national attention to voting rights
• Leaders were threatened and some were killed
• Attracting middle class college students
• James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Micheal Schwerner went "missing"; attracted national attention
• LBJ led a search
• Schools opened up to teach people to pass the literacy tests
• Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner found dead on a farm
• 60,000 people registered for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party; Voting drive was successful

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