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What did volunteers do during Freedom Summer?
Helped register African American voters <3 kelsmo m. kunz :)
What is important about freedom summer?
Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States launched during the summer of 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in the southern states. Over 1,000 volunteers helped out. The program was aimed atMississippi, where the African American population exceeded 45%, and only 5% voted. It registered 1,600 more blacks. The program also established many summer schools in Mississippi to try and counteract the state's inequitably-funded school system.
What did voting rights act of 1965 enable federal officials to do?
They could investigate complaints of voting discrimination and to register qualified voters.
What were the strategys of the Mississippi Plan?
First step of the Mississippi plan was to persuade the 10 to 15 percent of white voters still calling themselves Republicans to switch to the Democrats. Second step was to intimidate black voters because, even with all whites voting Democratic, the party could be defeated by the 55 percent black majority.
Who helped register black voters in Mississippi?
There were many members of the NAACP, the SNCC (Students' Non-violent Coordinating Committee), and CORE (Council on Racial Equality) who travelled to Mississippi in the late 1950's and early 1960's to organize voter registration there. Mississippi had a black voting-age population of nearly 45%, but only one in every nine was registered to vote. The state had created qualifying tests that prevented most from registering, and intimidation methods, such as loss of employment, made many residents frightened to try. Among the leaders who were active in voter registrations and boycotts of white businesses were Martin Luther King of the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and the SNCC's Robert Parris Moses, Marion Barry, and Medgar Evers. Evers was shot and killed in July, 1963. Three volunteer workers for CORE (Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney) were murdered in June, 1964.
