Freedom Summer by Hazel Wells https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187 Autumn Wells & Mason Turner en-us 2017-03-14 14:49:26 UTC 2026-01-29 21:26:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Introduction mturne9515 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160271307 During 1964, a group of civil rights activists formed a voter registration project, to register as many African Americans to be able to vote in Mississippi. This project also set up many schools, houses and community centers in small towns to aid the black population.  ]]> 2017-03-15 14:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160271307 Major Leaders hwells4785 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160272027 -Robert Moses- proposed the idea of Freedom Summer to the leaders of SNCC(Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and CORE(congress of racial equality) in 1963 and directed it in early 1964. 
- Michael (Mickey) Schwerner, James Chaney & Andrew Goodman who were taken and beat and murdered by the Klu Klux Klan
]]> 2017-03-15 14:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160272027 Court Cases hwells4785 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160275475 June 21, 1964 3 men disappeared from Philadelphia, Mississippi. They had been trying to register black voters in Mississippi and they were arrested and in jail for several hours. When they were set free, they were released into the KKK who beat and murdered them. In October 1964, 18 men were arrested but the case was later dropped due to “lack of evidence”. The FBI stepped in and 7 men were arrested in 1967 and were convicted with federal conspiracy charges but noone was charged with murder.]]> 2017-03-15 15:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160275475 Organizations Involved mturne9515 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160276453
  • Local residents.
  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)
  • National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
  • Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC)
    • ]]>     2017-03-15 15:07:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160276453     Video mturne9515 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160279663 2017-03-15 15:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160279663 Key Strategies mturne9515 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160280141 All events that took place during Freedom Summer were non-violent, such as the creation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)]]> 2017-03-15 15:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160280141 Constitution Violated mturne9515 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160282464 African Americans wanted to vote, but because black Mississippi residents were not allowed to vote, they held a parallel "Freedom Election" in November and challenged the right of the all-white Mississippi congressional delegation to represent the state in Washington in January 1965. Ignoring the amendment forbidding African Americans to vote.]]> 2017-03-15 15:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160282464 Timeline hwells4785 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160283972 September 1963- Moses proposes a voter registration project to the SNCC
    November 4- More than 80,000 whites gather to claim that blacks didn’t want to vote. 
    December 15- COFO appoints Bob Moses as its director for voter registration. 
    January 22, 1964- COFO attempts to help 150 blacks register to vote. 
    January 31- NAACP organizer Louis Allen is shot because of his support of voter registration.
    June 29- Freedom Summer begins. 
    July 2- President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It outlawed major forms of discrimination
    August 4- Murdered bodies of the 3 men are found on a farm outside Philadelphia. 
    August-September- nine black homes, churches, and businesses are firebombed over the course of three weeks.
    August 6, 1965- Voting rights act of 1965 signed into law which prohibits discrimination for voter registration. 
    ]]>     2017-03-15 15:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160283972     Influence hwells4785 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160285164 Freedom Summer was to expand black voting in the South]]> 2017-03-15 15:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160285164 Summary mturne9515 https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160285778 2017-03-15 15:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hwells4785/sazzk4dkp187/wish/160285778