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How Did Freedom Summer Affect The Civil Rights Movement

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Sarah Rouse Hist2020 06/23/2024 Freedom Summer The summer of 1964 in Mississippi marked a crucial moment in the civil rights movement, at the center was a civil rights campaign known as Freedom Summer. This initiative was led by a coalition of monumental civil rights organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The events of Freedom Summer not only demonstrated the resilience of activists but also highlighted the violent opposition they faced in their struggle for racial equality. Freedom Summer was designed to increase voter registration among …show more content…

A key component of the campaign was the establishment of "Freedom Schools," which exemplified the movement. These schools provided African American communities with not only academic knowledge and literacy but also a space for political education and organizing (Source 26.7). Nancy Ellin, a volunteer from Hattiesburg, penned a letter describing the positive impact of these initiatives and emphasizing the importance of individual and community presence in the face of pervasive racial hostility (Source 26.7) 2. The idealistic goals of Freedom Summer collided with the deep resistance of white Southerners. Newspaper editorials in the South criticized the campaign as a ‘communist-led incursion’ and expressed concerns about federal interference disrupting the Southern customs and economy (Source 26.8). These sentiments led to acts of violence and intimidation against volunteers, ultimately resulting in the deaths of three civil rights activists. Amidst these challenges, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) emerged as a formidable political

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This was the first time many Americans opened their eyes to the lynching and killings of African Americans in the south, even though it was happening for years before Freedom Summer without any governmental regulation. Freedom Summer raised the realization of millions of Americans that change was needed. Many were furious in the lack of government involvement in assuring the volunteers were safe from threats and violence, and the corruption by police in the south. Americans pressured the federal government and politicians that this was unacceptable. This was very important to the civil rights movement because now not only were African Americans who were unregistered encouraged to vote, but the oppression and persecution of black voters in the south brought to the attention of the national media.

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Lawson largely bases his research on secondary sources and gives significant credit to historians that have provided research relevant to Running for Freedom. The book spans many decades and issues that have arisen from recent history to World War II. In this book, Lawson attempts to mesh together the various approaches that were taken during the civil rights movement. He seeks to reconcile the national leaders with the grass roots movements that historians tend to separate. Lawson does a good job at looking at the effects and impact that national movements had on local movements and that local movements had on national movements.

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COFO organized a project called Freedom Summer ( Summer of Freedom ) which sought to register blacks to vote in Mississippi , one of the most oppressive state for African American citizens. Hundreds of civil rights activists , white and colored , traveled to Mississippi to participate in the project. The project received mixed reactions: thousands of black enthusiastically registered to vote, while local whites reacted with great resistance , generating violence against citizens of color throughout the state. Those who fought against all forms of that system experienced severe repression - in Mississippi in the early 1960s, to participate in this struggle were given brutal beatings, put in jail, those expelled from their work and home and

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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was founded in 1963 to counter the Mississippi Democratic Party which only allowed participation by whites. The party was developed during the Freedom Summer Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, of which Hamer was the vice-chair. In 1964, 40 percent of the population was black, yet they were not allowed to participate in the political system (Bramlett-Solomon 1991, 515). The party registered 60, 000 black voters in the state of Mississippi and after that effort party delegates were sent to the 1964 Democratic Convention.

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Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. The project also set up dozens of Freedom Schools throughout Mississippi to aid the local black population. The projects leadership and funding came from the SNCC and COFO, along with hundreds of white college students in the north. In 1963, the SNCC organized a mock vote for blacks, which gave them a chance to prove they were capable of understanding politics. The civil rights activists from both organizations and the white volunteers from the north faced many challenges during the campaign.

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The United States changed in more ways than one as a result of the Freedom Summer of 1964. It changed socially as well as politically. The staff and volunteers of the Freedom Summer not only brought awareness to the disenfranchisement of African-Americans in Mississippi, but also to the conditions which plagued Mississippi and its people. The Mississippi Summer Project encouraged many African-American Mississippians to participate in local, state, and national elections. It also helped African-Americans establish a new political party called the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP).

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The party held a convention and elected leaders to send to the Democratic National Convention being held in August. Fannie Lou Hamer of the MFDP gave a televised speech after the delegates were denied their seats. This led to constituents “in many states sen[ding] messages to their delegates urging their support for seating the MFDP” (Ohrenschall). With all of these major movements joining into one, the SNCC gained what it needed most: attention. The immediate effect of the Freedom Summer on Selma was minimal, but its efforts drew the eyes of the nation to the civil rights movement.

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These three things were helping with voter registration, helping with freedom schools, and helping with the Mississippi Freedom democratic party(American). The SNCC and the CORE( congress of racial equality), wanted these volunteers to help bring attention to what was happening, and finally make a change for African Americans(Wisconsin). African Americans have been discriminated against, even though they are people with feelings and dreams just like the rest of society; even though the only difference between African Americans and Caucasians is the color of their skin. These African Americans no matter what endured the hate, bombings, beatings, and murders, so they

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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.

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The purpose of Free Rider movement was to boycott the segregation on buses, the interstate and interstate transportation, failed compliance with ruling Morgan v. Virginia, on going boycott and sit-in demonstrations in the south and more. In 1961 the activists would take interstate buses into the segregated southern United States and it went on for years to protest the United State Supreme Court that to segregated buses is not right and unconstitutional. There were 436 individuals participated in about 60 separate Freedom Rides. The results were desegregation order from Interstate Commerce Commission and it was then recognized as a serious organization. Freedom Summer Project Started in the summer of 1964 in Mississippi, organized by the Council of Federated Organizations.

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