Freedom Summer

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What year was the freedom summer?

1964

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How many weeks long was the freedom summer campaign?

10

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What was the target of the freedom summer campaign?

To increase the number of black people registred to vote

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Where did the Freedom Summer campaign occur?

Mississippi

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What did BlaCk people who wanted to register to vote have to fill out?

a 21-question registration form

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What could the 21-question registration form as questions on?

Any of the 285 sections of the state constitution

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What percentage of the black population in Mississippi could registered to vote?

7%

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What organised the Freedom Summer campaign?

The council of federated organisations (COFO)

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What were the branches involved in the COFO?

SNCC, CORE, NAACP, and SCLC

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<p>Who was the overall leader of COFO? </p>

Who was the overall leader of COFO?

Bob Moses of the SNCC

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When did the first students supporting the freedom summer campaign arrive in Mississippi?

15th June 1964

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How many students arrived on June 15th 1964?

300

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What is the names of the two white men that were murdered at the beginning of the freedom summer campaign?

Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman

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What is the name of the black man that was murdered at the beginning of the summer campaign?

James Chaney

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What day did Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney murdered?

June 16th 1964

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How long did it take to find the bodies of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney?

6 weeks

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How many people were arrested during the freedom summer?

1,062

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How many freedom workers were beaten?

80

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How may churches were bombed or burned during the Freedom Summer?

37

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How many civil rights workers were murdered during the Freedom Summer campaign?

4

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How many people were critically injured during the Freedom Summer?

4

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What were the three main strands of the Freedom Summer?

Voter registration, freedom schools, and the mississippi freedom democratic party.

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How many black Mississippi residents registered to vote during to vote in 1964?

15 thousand

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How many freedom schools were set up?

50

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How many students received lessons from freedom schools?

3,500

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What were the lessons taught in the Freedom Schools?

Black history and constitutional rights

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What did the MFDP offer in Mississippi?

An alternative to the official democratic party which was white-only

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How many people joined the MFDP?

80 000

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How many delegates did the MFDP elect and send to the national Democratic Party Convention?

68

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Who delivered a speech explaining her suffering at the hands of the police, justifying the recognition of the MFDP?

Fannie Lou Hamer

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Where did Fannie Lou Hamer deliver her speech?

The Democratic National Conference

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What did LBJ do to distract from Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech?

Called his own speech

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Did LBJ give the MFDP seats?

No

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What was the condition LBJ made with the official democratic delegation?

to stop discriminating

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What succeeded the Freedom Summer?

the radicalisation of civil rights

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