PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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the right to nonviolent protest in Mississippi.
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the elimination of Jim Crow laws in the South.
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the desegregation of public schools in Arkansas.
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the registration of African Americans to vote in Mississippi.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter intimidation and discrimination at the polls.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Statement on the Passing of Freedom Summer Organizer, SNCC Secretary, and Civil Rights Leader Robert ‘Bob’ Moses | National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the summer of 1964, hundreds of college students flooded Mississippi. The students came from different backgrounds, colleges, and Civil Rights organizations. Despite these differences, they had one goal, increase voter registration among African Americans in Mississippi.