Freedom Summer

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Freedom Summer was a 1964 campaign in Mississippi that mobilized civil rights activists to challenge racial segregation and disenfranchisement by registering Black voters and establishing community programs.

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instanceOf civil rights campaign
historical event
voter registration drive
hasActivity community organizing
establishing Freedom Schools
establishing community centers
political education
supporting the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
voter registration
hasAlternativeName Mississippi Summer Project
linked to: Freedom Summer
hasAssociatedOrganization Council of Federated Organizations
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
hasCountry United States
hasEducationalProgram Freedom Schools
citizenship education
hasFocus Black voting rights
racial equality in political participation
hasImpactOn passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
hasLegacy model for later grassroots voting rights campaigns
hasLocation Mississippi
hasMethod grassroots organizing
legal challenges to discriminatory practices
nonviolent direct action
hasNotableEvent murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
hasOppositionFrom Ku Klux Klan
segregationist local officials
white supremacist groups
hasOrganizer Congress of Racial Equality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
linked to: NAACP

Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
hasParticipant civil rights activists
local Black Mississippians
northern college students
religious leaders
hasPurpose to challenge Black voter disenfranchisement
to challenge racial segregation
to establish community programs
to register Black voters
hasResult growth of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
increased national attention to racial violence in Mississippi
pressure for federal voting rights legislation
hasStartTime 1964
hasTemporalContext Civil Rights Movement
targetedProblem Jim Crow laws
literacy tests for Black voters
poll taxes
tookPlaceIn summer of 1964

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American civil rights movement hasPart Freedom Summer
American South (mid-20th century civil rights era) siteOfEvent Mississippi Freedom Summer
linked to: Freedom Summer
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee participatedIn Mississippi Freedom Summer
linked to: Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer hasAlternativeName Mississippi Summer Project
linked to: Freedom Summer
Fannie Lou Hamer workedOn Freedom Summer 1964
linked to: Freedom Summer
Bob Moses notableWork Freedom Summer 1964 organizing
linked to: Freedom Summer
Congress of Racial Equality notableCampaign Freedom Summer
subject linked to: CORE
Jackson Movement influenced Freedom Summer
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum focusesOn Mississippi Freedom Summer
linked to: Freedom Summer
Stanley Nelson Jr. notableWork Freedom Summer
Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee associatedWithEvent Mississippi Freedom Summer
linked to: Freedom Summer