Freedom Summer By Bruce Watson

Freedom Summer was written by Bruce Watson. This book is about how 700 hundred students traveled to Mississippi to make blacks as equal as other ethnicities. In 1964 in Mississippi and other Southern states blacks did not have the right to vote in elections. Things that stopped them from voting in elections were poll taxes, literacy test, and other "legalistic voodoo"(Bruce Watson) to stop blacks from voting in elections .The book reflect today's life as well, by blacks not being able to do things. In Freedom Summer the organization named SNCC which stands for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee fought for equality among blacks. Similar to the SNCC, in today's society there's an organization called BLM which stands for Black Live Matter in place to fight for justice for blacks. The SNCC fought for blacks rights and did not give up even though obstacles were in place to make them stop fighting.

Members of this organization was college students from Yale, Harvard, and other university. Students were not accepted if they intentions were to have interracial sex, or any other bad intentions. Furthermore, if students were accepted they had to read and review a security handbook so nothing will happen to them. They informed the students on what not to do like don't walk at night, drive in a car, and never go anywhere alone. These students knew that they were risking their lives by going to Mississippi, but they were up for the challenge. The SNCC was not giving up without a