Freedom Summer, Legislation, and Key/Actors and Groups 1.2

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Mississippi

state known for racial violence, had an active and widespread kkk, economic intimidation

  • Where the Freedom Summer began (SNCC)

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Council of Federated Organizations (COF)

formed to coordinate NAACP, SCLC, CORE, SNCC, and National Urban League (NUL) to administer and carry out newly funded voter education (VEP)

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Freedom Summer

COFO leaders decided to flood missisippi with volunteers to change the status quo of voter intimidation and economic discrimination

meant to combine voter ed., registration, political action

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Freedom schools

created to teach literacy and civics to adults and kids (meant to be totally integrates)

  • some volunteers white students

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Beloved community ideal

love and commitment to nonviolence, wanted to eradicated discrimination, poverty, hunger, and homelessness

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Accomplishments of freedom summer

  • 41 freedom schools accomplished

  • 3,000 youth attended

  • taught to pass literacy tests (although few did due to discrimination)

  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDM) formed to challenge the all white Mississippi democratic party

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • encompasses voting rights, public accommodations, employment, and authorized higher courts to review district referrals to state courts

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • SCLC started voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama

  • outlawed literacy tests, directed U Dep. of Justice to challenge poll taxes and gave attorney general the power to assign federal examiners to observe and direct voter reg. where less than ½ of eligible residents voted

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Bloody Sunday

  • march from Selma to Montgomery

  • police responded with tear gas, billy clubs, and whips

  • led to nationalized attention

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • minister who helped form SCLC

  • wrote Letter from a Birmingham jail — called for all to stand up to immoral treatment of blacks

  • I have a dream speech

  • non violence for integration

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Malcom X

  • joined Nation of Islam

  • wanted Africans to be self sufficient (education)

  • wanted the creation of a black national state

  • militarist

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Lyndon B Johnson

  • advocated for “great society”

  • originally didn’t do much about racism but quickly began to take action

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National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP)

  • purpose: secure all people the rights guaranteed in the constitution

  • focused mainly on legal battles

  • also had a youth league

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

  • born out of Montgomery bus boycotts

  • mlk helped to create

  • grassroots

  • trained leaders in nonviolence

  • also helped with voter reg.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

  • grassroots org. established durring college student lunch counter sit-in

  • primary focus on voter reg.

  • helped organize freedom rides

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Nation of Islam

  • founded to prepare and educate African Americans for the struggle to take back the earth

  • founded private schools

  • militaristic

  • civic action not apart of group

  • separatism