The 1964 Mississippi

Freedom Summer

Project

Outline

• What Was Freedom Summer?

• Goals and Objectives

• Who Participated?

• Who Opposed Freedom Summer?

• What Happened?

• What Were Some Results?

• Learn More

What Was Freedom Summer?

A Closed Society

Disenfranchisement

Goals and Objectives

Increase Voter Registration

Goals

Set Up Freedom Schools

Goals

Open Community Centers

Goals

Map of Freedom Summer Project Sites

Goals

Create the Freedom Democratic Party

Goals

Challenge the Democratic National Committee

Goals

Who Participated?

Civil Rights Organizations

Who

ca. 120 Paid Staff of Civil Rights Groups

Who

John Lewis, SNCC Dave Dennis, CORE

60,000 Local Residents

Who

Some Key People

Bob Moses and Dave DennisWho

Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman

Who

Fannie Lou Hamer

Who

Annie Devine, Aaron Henry and Victoria Gray

Who

Who Opposed Freedom Summer?

Mississippi State Officials

Opposition

Sen. John C. Stennis Gov. Ross Barnett & Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson Sen. James O. Eastland

Law Enforcement

Opposition

Local Businesses

Opposition

Racist Vigilante Groups

Opposition

What Happened?

Orientation in Oxford, Ohio, June 15-29

What Happened

Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner

What Happened

Non-Violent Resistance

What Happened

Voter registration

What Happened

Freedom Schools What Happened

Democratic National Convention challenge

What Happened

Freedom Election, Oct. 31-Nov. 2

What Happened

Congressional Challenge, January 1965

What Happened

What Were Some Results?

Consciousness Raising

Results

Political Skills

Results

Black Power

Results

1965 Voting Rights Act

After

Learn MoreThousands of archival records documenting the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project are online at

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