The 1964 Mississippi
Freedom Summer
Project
Outline
• What Was Freedom Summer?
• Goals and Objectives
• Who Participated?
• Who Opposed Freedom Summer?
• What Happened?
• What Were Some Results?
• Learn More
What Was Freedom Summer?
Disenfranchisement
Goals and Objectives
Increase Voter Registration
Goals
Set Up Freedom Schools
Goals
Open Community Centers
Goals
Map of Freedom Summer Project Sites
Goals
Create the Freedom Democratic Party
Goals
Challenge the Democratic National Committee
Goals
Who Participated?
Civil Rights Organizations
Who
ca. 120 Paid Staff of Civil Rights Groups
Who
John Lewis, SNCC Dave Dennis, CORE
60,000 Local Residents
Who
Bob Moses and Dave DennisWho
Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman
Who
Fannie Lou Hamer
Who
Annie Devine, Aaron Henry and Victoria Gray
Who
Who Opposed Freedom Summer?
Mississippi State Officials
Opposition
Sen. John C. Stennis Gov. Ross Barnett & Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson Sen. James O. Eastland
Law Enforcement
Opposition
Local Businesses
Opposition
Racist Vigilante Groups
Opposition
Orientation in Oxford, Ohio, June 15-29
What Happened
Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner
What Happened
Non-Violent Resistance
What Happened
Voter registration
What Happened
Freedom Schools What Happened
Democratic National Convention challenge
What Happened
Freedom Election, Oct. 31-Nov. 2
What Happened
Congressional Challenge, January 1965
What Happened
What Were Some Results?
Consciousness Raising
Results
Political Skills
Results
Black Power
Results
1965 Voting Rights Act
After
Learn MoreThousands of archival records documenting the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project are online at
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