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Freedom Summer 1964

Written by Erin G. , Ian McCants, and Julia L.

$1.25

April 4, 2016

Who/What caused the freedom summer

Introduction

Introduction

  • The C.O.R.E. (Congress on racial equality) And the S.N.C.C. (Student non-violent student coordination committee) where two organizations who started and helped start the Freedom summer
  • In a way the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) affected the Freedom summer by treating black so poorly which made the goal of integration more wanted
  • Having to watch someone get beat for having a different skin color ma
  • Most of the people that help start the freedom summer were ironically mostly white

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Why did the KKK burn the cross?

By: Julia L.

The Freedom Summer was a movement that's goal was to allow African-Americans in Mississippi to vote. In the past, Mississippi had historically excluded African-Americans to vote. It was a highly publicized campaign, and some people that were white were not happy about this, and tried to stop them. These efforts that the white people did often ended up in violent, and racially exclusive campaigns. Even with the violence the police didn't stop it, and that was another issue. Read pages 2-5 for more information on the topic.

  • Modern Klan groups are careful to refer to their ritual as "cross lighting" rather than cross-burning and insist that their fires symbolize faith in Christ.
  • The days of so-called disciplinary burnings, they add, are long since over.
  • Still, nearly 1,700 cross-burnings have been documented since the late 1980s, many of them in the front yards of African-American families—although, in all fairness, the majority have been carried out by lone racist yahoos, rather than by organized Klan groups.

As far as I'm concerned Freedom Summer never really ended...

-Victoria Gray Adams

Quiz!!

Why was a simple goal of nonviolence met by violence?

Question 2:

What were our three questions?

Question 1.

What does KKK stand for?

By: Erin Gonter

  • Freedom Summer was a nonviolent effort by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi's segregated political system during 1964.
  • Police would even beat African Americans when their job was to protect people
  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had worked hard for civil rights in the more rural part of Mississippi since 1961
  • The organization found that intense resistance by local people would not allow direct campaigns, that had been easier in urban areas.
  • White citizens were not open to change, and I think that this could because they were scared for change, which caused them to rebel
  • White college students were coming from the North, and this made some white citizens in the South angry to think that they would stand up for someone that wasn’t there skin color

Who/what caused the Freedom summer?

Why did the KKK burn the cross?

Why did a simple goal of nonviolence met by violence?

Ku Klux Klan!!

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