Freedom Summer
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- Synopsis
- The event in question is the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign, or, as it was simply known at the time, the Summer Project. Spearheaded by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the project lasted less than three months, from early June until late August. During that time, better than 1,000 people, the vast majority of them white Northern college students, journeyed South to work in one of the forty-four local projects that comprised the overall campaign. While in Mississippi, the volunteers lived in communal "Freedom Houses" or were housed by local black families who refused to be intimidated by segregationist threats of violence. Their days were taken up with a variety of tasks, principally registering black voters and teaching in so-called Freedom Schools.
- Copyright:
- 1988
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 374 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195064728
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 01/11/08
- Copyrighted By:
- Oxford University Press, Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- 8
- Proofread By:
- 8
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.