freedom summer the summer of 1964. in prevented many african americans from voting. the naacp &...
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Freedom Summer
The Summer Of 1964
•• The NAACP & College students from the
north help the African Americans gain the rights to vote.
In prevented many African Americans from voting.
What Happened
• African-Americans in South had to take literacy tests.
• Voting committee founund a way to make them fail.
Registration
• People in the south also forced to pay a Poll tax
• White people paid less than African-Americans
Poll Taxes
• While Congress was working on the Civil Rights Act- African American and white volunteers went south to help
• Police in south didn’t protect them
Volunteers
• Three CORE workers, Andrew Goodman, Mickey Schwerner,and James Chaney were killed in June 1964.
Danger in Mississippi
• Killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan
• Deaths of the 3 workers brought national attention to the problems Civil Rights workers faced in the South
Danger in Mississippi cont.
• Congress passed the Voting Rights Act,
1965
Passing the Voting Rights Act
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/1964/player/
http://courses.education.illinois.edu/ci407ss/freedomsummer.html
Sources
Chen,Yong American History Globe Fearon
Pearson Education,Inc.,2003. Print.
Sources cont.