USA HISTORY

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: -College students made up the majority of volunteers. More than 900 of these were white college students from across the nation. Volunteers also came from Canada, England, New Zealand, and Kenya.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which is a true statement about the Freedom Summer campaign? It was met with violence by white protesters.