PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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They helped register many African Americans to vote and brought national attention to voting issues in the South.
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They influenced the federal government to send troops to enforce the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
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They promoted the passage of the Civil Rights Act to end segregation of public schools and other facilities.
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They led to the formation of the Black Panthers in order to seek revenge for the deaths of the civil rights workers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Voter registration in Mississippi was not greatly impacted by the Freedom Summer. While 17, 000 Black Mississippians attempted to register to vote that summer, only 1, 200 were successful. The Mississippi Project did establish more than 40 Freedom Schools serving a combined 3, 000 students.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did the events related to Freedom Summer in Mississippi impact the United States? They helped register many African Americans to vote & brought national attention to voting issues in the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Freedom Summer Project resulted in various meetings, protests, freedom schools, freedom housing, freedom libraries, and a collective rise in awareness of voting rights and disenfranchisement experienced by African Americans in Mississippi.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 1964 Freedom Summer project was designed to draw the nation’s attention to the violent oppression experienced by Mississippi blacks who attempted to exercise their constitutional rights, and to develop a grassroots freedom movement that could be sustained after student activists left Mississippi.