Freedom+Summer

=Freedom Summer=

The Summer of 1964
//The Freedom Summer was a publicized campaign in the southern states of the USA to register black people to vote during the summer of 1964.//

In the Summer of 1964 thousands of civil rights activists, most of whom were white college students from the North, migrated Mississippi with the hope of putting an end to the injustice black people had been enduring; in doing this, they pursued the right to allow black people to vote. Even though they had won the right to vote in 1870, the blacks were unable to exercise this right thanks to the 15th Amendment- setting Civil Rights back another 100 years!

This campaign was organized by a number of Civil Rights organizations such as CORE, NAACP and SNCC.

Freedom Summer official established 30 "Freedom Schools" in Mississippi and many of the white college students from the North were assigned to teach at these schools.

Freedom Summer activitsts were threatened and harrassed throughtout the entire campaign, not just from white supremacist groups but from members of the local community-including the police.

**A group of student volunteers waiting for buses to take them to Mississippi (1964) **

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