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CORE Members murdered in Mississippi

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Freedom Summer was
a
highly publicized campaign in the Deep South to register blacks to vote during
the summer of 1964.

During the summer of
1964,Tiffany Bracelet, thousands of civil rights activists, many of them white college students
from the North, descended on Mississippi and other Southern states to try to end
the long-time political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the region.
Although black men had won the right to vote in 1870, thanks to the Fifteenth
Amendment,Tiffany And Co Outlet, for the next 100 years many were unable to exercise that right. White
local and state officials systematically kept blacks from voting through formal
methods, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, and through cruder methods of
fear and intimidation, which included beatings and lynchings.
The inability to vote was only one of many problems blacks encountered in the
racist society around them, but the civil-rights officials who decided to zero
in on voter registration understood its crucial significance as well the white
supremacists did. An African American voting bloc would be able to effect social
and political change.

Freedom
Summer marked the climax of intensive voter-registration activities in the South
that had started in 1961. Organizers chose to focus their efforts on Mississippi
because of the state's particularly dismal voting-rights record: in 1962 only
6.7 percent of African Americans in the state were registered to vote, the
lowest percentage in the country. The Freedom Summer campaign was organized by a
coalition called the Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations, which was
led by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and included the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). By mobilizing volunteer white college
students from the North to join them, the coalition scored a major public
relations coup as hundreds of reporters came to Mississippi from around the
country to cover the voter-registration campaign.

The organization of
the Mississippi Freedom Party (MFDP) was a major focus of the summer program.
More than 80,000 Mississippians joined the new party, which elected a slate of
sixty-eight delegates to the national Democratic Party convention in Atlantic
City. The MFDP delegation challenged the seating of the delegates representing
Mississippi's all white Democratic Party. While the effort failed, it drew
national attention, particularly through the dramatic televised appeal of MFDP
delegate Fannie Lou Hamer. The MFDP challenge also lead to a ban on racially
discriminatory delegations at future conventions.

Freedom Summer
officials also established 30 "Freedom Schools" in towns throughout
Mississippi to address the racial inequalities in Mississippi's educational
system. Mississippi's black schools were invariably poorly funded, and teachers
had to use hand-me-down textbooks that offered a racist slant on American
history. Many of the white college students were assigned to teach in these
schools, whose curriculum included black history, the philosophy of the Civil
Rights Movement, and leadership development in addition to remedial instruction
in reading and arithmetic. The Freedom Schools had hoped to draw at least 1000
students that first summer,Pandora Bracelet, and ended up with 3000. The schools became a model
for future social programs like Head Start,Tiffany Diamond, as well as alternative educational
institutions.

Freedom Summer
activists faced threats and harassment throughout the campaign, not only from
white supremacist groups, but from local residents and police. Freedom School
buildings and the volunteers' homes were frequent targets; 37 black churches and
30 black homes and businesses were firebombed or burned during that summer, and
the cases often went unsolved. More than 1000 black and white volunteers were
arrested, and at least 80 were beaten by white mobs or racist police officers.
But the summer's most infamous act of violence was the murder of three young
civil rights workers, a black volunteer, James
Chaney, and his white coworkers,Pandora Anhänger,Fierce Conversations Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time (Relationships) audiobook download,
Andrew
Goodman and Michael Schwerner. On June 21, Chaney,
Goodman and Schwerner set out to investigate a church bombing near Philadelphia,
Mississippi, but were arrested that afternoon and held for several hours on
alleged traffic violations. Their release from jail was the last time they were
seen alive before their badly decomposed bodies were discovered under a nearby
dam six weeks later. Goodman and Schwerner had died from single gunshot wounds
to the chest, and Chaney from a savage beating.

The murders made
headlines all over the country,Tiffany Engagement Rings Uk, and provoked an outpouring of national support
for the Civil Rights Movement. But many black volunteers realized that because
two of the victims were white, these murders were attracting much more attention
than previous attacks in which the victims had been all black, and this added to
the growing resentment they had already begun to feel towards the white
volunteers. There was growing dissension within the ranks over charges of white
paternalism and elitism. Black volunteers complained that the whites seemed to
think they had a natural claim on leadership roles, and that they treated the
rural blacks as though they were ignorant. There was also increasing hostility
from both black and white workers over the interracial romances that developed
the summer. Meanwhile, women volunteers of both races were charging both the
black and white men with ######ist behavior.

But despite the
internal divisions,What Is Pandora, Freedom Summer left a positive legacy. The well-publicized
voter registration drives brought national attention to the subject of black
disenfranchisement, and this eventually led to the 1965
Voting Rights Act, federal
legislation that among other things outlawed the tactics Southern states had
used to prevent blacks from voting. Freedom Summer also instilled among African
Americans a new consciousness and a new confidence in political action. As
Fannie Lou Hamer later said,Pandora Jewelry Coupons, "Before the 1964 project there were people
that wanted change, but they hadn't dared to come out. After 1964 people began
moving. To me it's one of the greatest things that ever happened in
Mississippi."

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