Freedom Summer
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), founded in Greensboro, North Carolina in April 1960, coordinated the Freedom Summer Project. The group was comprised of young Civil Rights Leaders who took initiatives in nonviolent sit-ins.
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"The 1964 Freedom Summer project was designed to draw the nation’s attention to the violent oppression experienced by Mississippi blacks who attempted to exercise their constitutional rights, and to develop a grassroots freedom movement that could be sustained long after student activists left Mississippi. "
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Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles tells the a story based on the author's own experiences visiting family in 1964 Mississippi. The story is about two young boys, one black, one white, who are friends. The boys do everything together. Everything, that is, that John Henry is allowed to do. A thought-provoking story of true life after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Read the text by downloading the file below.
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