Freedom Summer

The Freedom Summer byla dobrovolná kampaň vedená organizací Civil Rights movement během léta 1964 k registraci African-Americans in Mississippi pro hlasování po přijetí zákonů o hlasovacích právech. Senator James Eastland and other important Southern Democrats odpůrci volebních práv Afroameričanů a segregacionisté jako Ku Klux Klan se podíleli na násilí proti aktivistům. 1,062 people were arrested, 80 workers were beaten, 37 church was destroyed, 30 black properties were destroyed, 4 workers were killed, 4 people were critical wounded and 3 local African-Americans were murdered. The murdered people included Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, who were murdered by the Klan; Senator Eastland claimed that they had really gone to Chicago, and that their disappearance was a "publicity stunt". The Freedom Summer led to the creation of "Freedom Schools" to provide free education to African-Americans, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was caused by the summer.

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