Freedom Summer

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Freedom Summer

• The Summer Of 1964

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What Happened

• In prevented many African Americans from voting.
• The NAACP College students from the north help
  the African Americans gain the rights to vote.

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Registration

• African-Americans in South had to take literacy
  tests.
• Voting committee founund a way to make them
  fail.

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Poll Taxes

• People in the south also forced to pay a Poll tax
• White people paid less than African-Americans

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Volunteers

• While Congress was working on the Civil Rights
  Act- African American and white volunteers went
  south to help
• Police in south didnt protect them

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Danger in Mississippi

• Three CORE workers, Andrew Goodman, Mickey
  Schwerner,and James Chaney were killed in June
  1964.

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Danger in Mississippi cont.

• Killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan
• Deaths of the 3 workers brought national
  attention to the problems Civil Rights workers
  faced in the South

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Passing the Voting Rights Act

• Congress passed the Voting Rights Act,
• 1965

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Sources

• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/1
  964/player/
• http//courses.education.illinois.edu/ci407ss/fre
  edomsummer.html

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Sources cont.

• Chen,Yong American History Globe Fearon
• Pearson Education,Inc.,2003. Print.