How did the Freedom Summer Progress Civil Rights?
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- Freedom Summer, 1964
- People involved
- 1,000 volunteers went to Mississippi to work with local campaigners on projects in the black community.
- Most volunteers were white college students
- KKK - over 10,000 KKK members in Mississippi
- They burnt 37 black churches and 30 homes
- Beat up volunteers and local black people
- 17,000 black people tried to register to vote that summer
- Of which 1,600 succeeded
- SNCC - involved in setting up the 'Freedom Summer'
- Volunteers - knew they were putting themselves and black Mississippians in danger.
- CORE - involved in setting up the 'Freedom Summer'
- 1,000 volunteers went to Mississippi to work with local campaigners on projects in the black community.
- What did they accomplish / do
- 2 white were killed - supported the freedom summer - south didn't like this because of the fact that they were white
- scandalous
- Civil Rights Bill - introduced but not passed
- Core, SNCC, NAACP worked together to organise Freedom Summer in June 1964
- Aimed to increase the number of registered voters in Mississippi (had the lowest number of registered black voters in the USA - 7%)
- 80,000 people joined the Mississippi Freedom Party, 30 freedom schools set up.
- Originally 3000 students, increased to 70,000 by the end of the year.
- Violence - target of white racist bombings and 3 volunteers murdered.
- 2 white were killed - supported the freedom summer - south didn't like this because of the fact that they were white
- Judgement of progress
- 1,600 more black Americans registered to vote
- over 17,000 tried
- made people aware of the problems when registering to vote
- people were beaten up, lost their jobs and some murdered
- 1,600 more black Americans registered to vote
- Mississippi Murders
- 3 freedom party members arrested for traffic offences while investigating a church bombing
- Police officer who arrested them - also member of KKK
- Tells friends about the arrest - friends murder the arrested
- 7 were convicted, didn't spend more than 6 years in prison.
- Johnson wanted to find murderers
- People are horrified that people murdered white people
- Signed Civil Rights Act
- Widespread publicity - possibly because 2 of the victims were white
- People involved
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