https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb Unit 13 en-us 2019-04-08 16:38:20 UTC 2026-03-14 05:33:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/349599387 AKA Mississippi Summer Project, This was 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by CORE, SNCC and NAACP. Hundreds of Mississippians and out of state volunteers helped in trying to gain more black voters in the south. This project wasn't taken lightly by white supremacist such as the KKK and the local and state police. They would retaliate in violent acts, even going as far as murder]]> 2019-04-08 16:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/349599387 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/349606460 Moses began working with Civil Rights activist in 1960 and then becoming the secretary for SNCC. Moses was the main organizer of the Summer project. He would travel to cities in Mississippi and try to register black voters. Moses has also been worked with  Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Algebra Project and more  ]]> 2019-04-08 16:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/349606460 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/349612872 First founded at Shaw University in Nashville Tennessee, was a committee of hundreds of college students (white and black) that would coordinate and support movements against segregation of lunch counters through non-violent acts. They would then move onto supporting efforts in gaining black voter registration ]]> 2019-04-08 17:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/349612872 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/349616725 2019-04-08 17:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/349616725 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/350461446 2019-04-10 17:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/350461446 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/350464277 Nonviolence 
The SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) made sure that that all their actions were carried out peacefully and were intended to cause no harm. If they were not nonviolent, they would disobey Martin Luther's word along with their plans for action would be backfired by violence between the blacks and whites, causing problems with the law. ]]> 2019-04-10 17:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/350464277 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/350870869 On June 21, 1964 three civil rights workers- James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schweitzer were murdered while volunteering to register black voters in Mississippi. Fast forward to 1967, 18 men where set to be trialdey onvicted 7 of these men and none of them served more than 6 years for their crime. With the trial still open to investigation, the killers have never really been brought to justice-which leaves people to question our government and their accountability.]]> 2019-04-11 16:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/350870869 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/350879115 The ublic outrage produced by Freedom Summer volunteers spurd President Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Which gave blacks across the nation the right to vote.]]> 2019-04-11 17:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/350879115 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/352936186 This cartoon is representing how African Americans are starting to gain more freedom, and how white supremacists are starting to loose control of their power over them, This cartoon connects to Freedom Summer because during the Freedom Summer period, the civil rights movement was growing stronger. ]]> 2019-04-21 17:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/352936186 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/352938644 https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer

http://freedom50.org/moses/

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS3707]]> 2019-04-21 18:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/352938644 awilli7198 https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/352939076 Blacks were not allowed to vote without taking certain tests in able to vote. During Freedom Summer, activists wanted as many blacks to vote whether or not they needed to take the tests, which was very much against the law at this time. ]]> 2019-04-21 18:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/awilli7198/yd4v0s0tv8cb/wish/352939076