Freedom Summer

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Freedom Summer

• Mississippi, 1964

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Freedom Summer

• Voter registration drive
• Called for after success of Freedom Vote
• Called for by the Students Nonviolent
  Coordinating Committee
• Aimed to increase black voter registration in
  Mississippi

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Freedom Summer

• The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was to
  be established
• Institutions called Freedom Schools were to be
  created to educate black children
• Community centers were also built to give blacks
  medical and legal assistance
• Murder of James Chaney

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Freedom School in Mississippi
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More Information

• Mississippi and Freedom Summer
• National Civil Rights Museum
• Freedom Summer by Liz Schiffrin