Freedom Summer

The Summer Of 1964

•• The NAACP & College students from the

north help the African Americans gain the rights to vote.

In prevented many African Americans from voting.

What Happened

• African-Americans in South had to take literacy tests.

• Voting committee founund a way to make them fail.

Registration

• People in the south also forced to pay a Poll tax

• White people paid less than African-Americans

Poll Taxes

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

• Police in south didn’t protect them

Volunteers

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

Danger in Mississippi

• 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

Danger in Mississippi cont.

• Congress passed the Voting Rights Act,

1965

Passing the Voting Rights Act

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/1964/player/

http://courses.education.illinois.edu/ci407ss/freedomsummer.html

Sources

Chen,Yong American History Globe Fearon

Pearson Education,Inc.,2003. Print.

Sources cont.