Hello Group!
First of all, make sure your Wiki is up and running for Monday. We will be checking it during class. Second, please comment on this post with regard to the following:
1. Give a brief summary of your event that encapsulates your understanding. This should be in your own words.
2. Provide FIVE quotations (voices) that you think will be valuable additions to your script. Provide each quote and then explain who the speaker is and why the quote is relevant.
1.) What I learned about mine so far is this was a summer when activist from the North were sent down to the South to try and help with voting rights. They were trained and sent down South and many of them were white. They were mostly kids that were in college and all under the age of 25. They were trained in Ohio and were not supposed to be violent. There were many people killed during this time period. 3 men all under age 25 who were activist were killed by the KKK and others and the men got off with no charges.
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- "On the 21st, three organizers, all under age 25, disappear while investigating a church burning. The bodies of James Chaney, a black Mississippian, and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, two white Northerners, will be found buried together on August 4th." This shgws the killing of the 3 men. One was african-american and the other two were white northerns who were down there trying to help. They did noting wrong but were in the wrong place.
- "Late on the night of June 11th, 1963, after President John F. Kennedy went on television asking Americans to support his civil rights bill, Evers was assassinated in his driveway. The murder weapon was traced to Citizens Council member Byron De La Beckwith, who would be tried twice and acquitted by all-white juries." This shows what was going on during the time. Even when the Prsident of the USA tries to help the movement people are still getting hurt.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/09_summer.html
- "By one count during Mississippi Freedom Summer there were 80 civil rights workers beaten, 1,000 arrests, 30 black homes and businesses bombed or burned, 37 churches bombed or burned, and four project workers killed." It shows all of the violence and how all of the people wanted to oppose and to help it. These are statistics that show how people were trying to stop the movement.
- "This pattern was repeated during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, when the fatal beating of 38-year-old Boston clergyman James Reeb and the shooting death of Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo spurred an outcry that the earlier murder of black Alabamian Jimmy Lee Jackson alone had not." These people had done nothing yet they were killed. They did not have weapons they were just peacefully demonstrating there beleifs and were killed. Jimmy Lee Jackson was not even apart of anything but he was just shot.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/profiles/58_northern.html
- "In addition to participating in protests, SNCC members registered black voters in the rural South, including the 1964 "Freedom Summer" campaign in Mississippi." This justs shows some of the tatics they were using to get heard. They would help register people to vote and start a party to oppose the all-white ones in the South. This organization was ran by students and that just shows was type of people were helping this movement and ran it.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/profiles/49_sncc.html
1) The Freedom Summer, to my understanding, was basically an attempt to help the black population in the southern states. In 1964, many college students from the northern states went into Mississippi and other southern states to try to fix how blacks were viewed. Even though they technically had a right to vote from the fifteenth ammendment, many were still unable to do so.
ReplyDelete2) “Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man.” This is from Lyndon Baines Johnson, and is saying that in this "freedom summer," his objective is to give people what they deserve, and what is "right"
"Freedom Summer project, a campaign to educate and register as many Black Mississippi voters as possible. The campaign included 1,000 voluteers." This is saying that a man named Bob Moses started this group called the COFO, which was meant to try to "eduacate and register as many black Mississippi voters as possible.
http://www.visionaryproject.org/timeline/
"During the summer of 1964, thousands of civil rights activists, many of them white college students from the North, descended on Mississippi and other Southern states to try to end the long-time political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the region." This explains the purpose of the Freedom Summer. It says how many college student went to the southern states in an attempt to change the ways that blacks were viewed, and try to make thing fair.
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom_summer.htm
"Although black men had won the right to vote in 1870, thanks to the Fifteenth Amendment, for the next 100 years many were unable to exercise that right." This was the motive for the Freedom Summer. Even though blacks were allowed to vote thanks to the Fifteenth Ammendment, many were still unable to. This was an attempt to correct this problem.
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom_summer.htm
"Freedom Summer activists faced threats and harassment throughout the campaign, not only from white supremacist groups, but from local residents and police." This symbolizes how intense this time got. Even though they were recieving threats, these volunteers knew their stress was nothing compared to what the blacks were going through. Therefore they continued with their objective.
My last quote was from http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom_summer.htm
ReplyDelete1)So far I have learned that freedom summer was the attempt to register as many black voters in Mississippi as possible because the amount of black voters was slim to none. The most important person in the freedom summer was Robert Parris Moses who came up with the idea to get the African Americans to vote.
ReplyDelete2)As an early volunteer, the plantation worker Fannie Lou Hamer, memorably explained: “I guess if I’d had any sense, I’d have been scared — but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they [white people] could do was kill me, and it seemed they’d been trying to do that a little at a time since I could remember.”
Read more: http://www.america.gov/st/diversity-english/2008/December/20090106140338jmnamdeirf0.5604822.html#ixzz1DJOkMNuz
"We fought during the war for America, Mississippi included. Now, after the Germans and Japanese hadn't killed us, it looked as though the white Mississippians would."
-Medgar Evers
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/missippi.html
Johnson explained how: "Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes."
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfreedomS.htm
marco williams-in the video
http://www.history.com/topics/freedom-summer/videos#10-days-freedom-summer
One of the outgrowths of their efforts was the creation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. A conservative coalition rose up in retaliation, featuring the Ku Klux Klan, the Citizen’s Councils, segregationist politicians such as Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and local law enforcement.
not a specific quote but shows how wallace was against the movement.
1.) The freedom summer was a a group of people from all over the country came to Mississippi to fight racial discrimination in the south. there main focus was mainly the voting booths.Activists came and committed themselves to gain the right for the black community to be able to vote and also comfortably vote.
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"That first day of Freedom Summer was unlike any in American history. Breaking down a century of Jim Crow, 250 volunteers fanned out across the state. In small towns with lilting names—Harmony, Hattiesburg, and Holly Springs—black families welcomed the first whites ever to set foot on their porches: “It’s a right fine Christian thing, a fine thing that y’all have come here,” noted one resident. Wherever they went that Sunday, volunteers noticed themselves being noticed. Host families showed them off—“Have you seen my girls yet?” Old women stopped “girls” to touch their skin, calling them “skinny” or “pretty.” Hands waved from porches, smiling faces leaned out of windows. From every soul crushed into the Mississippi soil, the same feeling emerged. “I’ve waited 80 years for you to come,” the gray-haired son of a slave told one volunteer."
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20100820-Freedom-Summer-Civil-Rights-Youthful-Revolution-Bob-Moses-FBI-Andrew-Goodman.shtml
"There is no denying the effect that Freedom Summer had on Mississippi's blacks. In 1964, 6.7% of Mississippi's voting-age blacks were registered to vote, 16.3% below the national average. By 1969, that number had leaped to 66.5%, 5.5% above the national average"
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/missippi.html
" Many Blacks wanted to vote, but the worried and rightfully so, they might lose their jobs if they voted. In 1962, many blacks want to vote in Madison County, but only a few actually got to register. The white registrars and the state government made sure that the majority of blacks would not be able to vote by setting up many obstacles, so they would not succeeded. In the mid, 1900's the civil rights organizations came together to help register more blacks."
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004391F/freedom_summer.htm
"Freedom Summer marked the climax of intensive voter-registration activities in the South that had started in 1961. Organizers chose to focus their efforts on Mississippi because of the state's particularly dismal voting-rights record: in 1962 only 6.7 percent of African Americans in the state were registered to vote, the lowest percentage in the country. The Freedom Summer campaign was organized by a coalition called the Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations, which was led by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and included the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). By mobilizing volunteer white college students from the North to join them, the coalition scored a major public relations coup as hundreds of reporters came to Mississippi from around the country to cover the voter-registration campaign"
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom_summer.htm