1964 voter registration campaign in the U.S. state of Mississippi
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Freedom Summer
Part of the Civil Rights Movement
SNCC advert for the Freedom Summer
Date
June – August 1964
Location
Mississippi
Caused by
In 1962, only 5.3% of African Americans in Mississippi were registered to vote
Formation of Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)
Resulted in
Creation of Freedom Schools
Formation of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
Catalyst to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Parties
Local residents
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)
National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC)
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCR)
Governor of Mississippi
United States Senator
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (MSSC)
White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Lead figures
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
Paul B. Johnson Jr., governor
Congressman
James Eastland, senator
MSSC member
Rex Armistead
Klan member
Samuel Bowers
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Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
State of Mississippi
Regional Council of Negro Leadership
Freedom Vote
Freedom Summer
March Against Fear
City of Oxford
Meredith v. Fair
Ole Miss riot
Other localities
Murder of George W. Lee
Murder of Lamar Smith
Murder of Emmett Till
Biloxi wade-ins
Biloxi sit-ins
Starkville sit-ins
Prayer Pilgrimage Freedom Ride
McComb Freedom Rides
Mississippi Freedom Rides
Murder of Herbert Lee
Burglund High School student walkout
Murder of Roman Ducksworth Jr.
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Murder of Louis Allen
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
Murder of Vernon Dahmer
United States v. Price
Shooting of Benjamin Brown
Murder of Wharlest Jackson
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
Freedom Summer, also known as the Freedom Summer Project 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. Blacks had been restricted from voting since the turn of the century due to barriers to voter registration and other laws. The project also set up dozens of Freedom Schools, Freedom Houses, and community centers such as libraries, in small towns throughout Mississippi to aid the local Black population.
The project was organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of the Mississippi branches of the four major civil rights organizations (SNCC, CORE, NAACP, and SCLC). Most of the impetus, leadership, and financing for the Summer Project came from SNCC. Bob Moses, SNCC field secretary and co-director of COFO, directed the summer project.[1]
^Clayborne Carson, In Struggle (Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 114.
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