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
Goals
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
Who Participated?
Who
Civil Rights Organizations
Who
ca. 120 Paid Staff of Civil Rights Groups
John Lewis, SNCC
Dave Dennis, CORE
Who
60,000 Local Residents
Some Key People
Who
Bob Moses and Dave Dennis
Who
Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney
and Andrew Goodman
Who
Fannie Lou Hamer
Who
Annie Devine, Aaron Henry and Victoria Gray
Who Opposed Freedom Summer?
Opposition
Mississippi State Officials
Sen. John C. Stennis
Gov. Ross Barnett & Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson
Sen. James O. Eastland
Opposition
Law Enforcement
Opposition
Local Businesses
Opposition
Racist Vigilante Groups
What Happened?
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 Were Some Results?
Results
Consciousness Raising
Results
Political Skills
Results
Black Power
After
1965 Voting Rights Act
Learn More
Thousands of archival records
documenting the 1964
Mississippi Freedom Summer
project are online at
wisconsinhistory.org/
freedomsummer
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