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The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Outline What Was Freedom Summer? Goals and Objectives Who Participated? Who Opposed Freedom Summer? What.

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1 The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project

2 Outline What Was Freedom Summer? Goals and Objectives Who Participated? Who Opposed Freedom Summer? What Happened? What Were Some Results? Learn More

3 What Was Freedom Summer?

4 A Closed Society

5 Disenfranchisement

6 Goals and Objectives

7 Increase Voter Registration Goals

8 Set Up Freedom Schools Goals

9 Open Community Centers Goals

10 Map of Freedom Summer Project Sites Goals

11 Create the Freedom Democratic Party Goals

12 Challenge the Democratic National Committee Goals

13 Who Participated?

14 Civil Rights Organizations Who

15 ca. 120 Paid Staff of Civil Rights Groups Who John Lewis, SNCC Dave Dennis, CORE

16 60,000 Local Residents Who

17 1,500 Northern Volunteers Who

18 Some Key People

19 Bob Moses and Dave Dennis Who

20 Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman Who

21 Fannie Lou Hamer Who

22 Annie Devine, Aaron Henry and Victoria Gray Who

23 Who Opposed Freedom Summer?

24 Mississippi State Officials Opposition Sen. John C. Stennis Gov. Ross Barnett & Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson Sen. James O. Eastland

25 Law Enforcement Opposition

26 Local Businesses Opposition

27 Racist Vigilante Groups Opposition

28 What Happened?

29 Orientation in Oxford, Ohio, June 15-29 What Happened

30 Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner What Happened

31 Non-Violent Resistance What Happened

32 Voter registration What Happened

33 Freedom Schools What Happened

34 Democratic National Convention challenge What Happened

35 Freedom Election, Oct. 31-Nov. 2 What Happened

36 Congressional Challenge, January 1965 What Happened

37 What Were Some Results?

38 Consciousness Raising Results

39 Political Skills Results

40 Black Power Results

41 1965 Voting Rights Act After

42 Learn More Thousands of archival records documenting the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project are online at wisconsinhistory.org/ freedomsummer View hundreds of images Download key documents Browse a timeline with links to related primary sources Find all 1,600 volunteers and staff Download this PowerPoint

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