In 1964 the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized its Freedom Summer campaign. Its main objective was to try an end the political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the Deep South. Volunteers from the three organizations decided to concentrate its efforts in Mississippi. The three organizations established 30 Freedom Schools in towns throughout Mississippi. Volunteers taught in the schools and the curriculum now included black history, the philosophy of the civil rights movement. During the summer of 1964 over 3,000 students attended these schools and the experiment provided a model for future educational programs . Freedom Schools were often targets of white mobs. So also were the homes of local African Americans involved in the campaign. That summer 30 black homes and 37 black churches were firebombed. Over 80 volunteers were beaten by white mobs or racist police officers and three men, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on 21st June, 1964.
Videos by Joan Baez and videos from the Civil Rights Movement
This is important to me because you need to know what goes around us especially with our war going on in Iraq and Afghanistan to see so many innocent lives that are taken so parents to grieve over their very own children that they love so much.
The racism needs to end period because everyone needs to chill but why you got to talk about certain races that's not right.You need to face up for what you do and end racism in the United States .We all need to ban together and lets us protest our rights.
We need to do something about it especially during school thats not cool to talk about this stuff especially during the school year.
Quotes
“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence” -Malcolm X
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. -Mohandas Gandhi
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great job. but maybe a little less color on your page
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