The words you are searching are inside this book. To get more targeted content, please make full-text search by clicking here.
Discover the best professional documents and content resources in AnyFlip Document Base.
Search
Published by jfalduti, 2018-02-21 12:51:16

The Freedom Summers

The Freedom Summers

The museum of the
Freedom Summer

Located in Hattiesburg,Mississippi
By: Maddie S.

The story and injustice of the freedom summer
Summer of 1964 in Mississippi, a group of African Americans
marched around Mississippi fighting for voting rights. This
was considered a milestone. The injustice of this story is
African Americans were not aloud to vote because according
to white supremist they were not Americans. College students
from oxford, Ohio came up with the idea to march to
Mississippi and go door to door asking the African Americans
to register to vote. This caused a march to inspire so many
others to register to vote and to join the fight on getting
voting rights. Eventually the law was set that all could
have voting rights.

Injustice: A violation of the rights of other; an unfair act

Milestone: An important event

Why does the freedom movement summer matter
today?

Legacy Desegregated:

The legacy of the freedom To stop racial
summer movement was that separation in
all are equal no matter race, schools and
and everyone should have a other public
say in what is happening. The facilities.
freedom summers affected
history because if the freedom Freedom summer march in 1964
summers movement never for voting rights for blacks.
happened, then there would
most likely not be voting rights
for blacks. However, the
freedom freedom summer
desegregated voting so they
got victory.

How did their The freedom summers made a difference
actions make a because when they got voting rights then
they were one step closer to getting more
difference? rights that segregated blacks and whites.
After the freedom summer many people
Freedom summers were inspired to start a movement that
supported civil rights. These people were
Segregated: inspired because of all, the compassion and
The separation of a race, bravery all of these students and blacks had
class or ethnic group from and how passionate they were about getting
the rest of society. what they wanted. However, many people
were inspired and soon enough black
people have all the same rights white
people have.

Artifact

This is a picture of voting booths in
Mississippi in the year 1964. This was the
year that the freedom summer had taken
place and the law was declared that African
Americans had Suffrage .
Today voting booths are used all over the
globe occupied by all race, ethnicity and
class. If it wasn’t for the freedom summer
than this picture wouldn’t even exist. So,
that’s why it is important to remember the
freedom summer.

Suffrage: the right to vote.
Primary source

First voting for African Americans
Mississippi 1964.

This artifact is a picture of a sculpture of 3
African American men standing around a
voting box being happy. This connects to
the freedom summer because this is
showing how happy people are that they
have certain rights and how that affects
people. In 1964 before the freedom
summer people felt sad because they
didn’t have certain rights. However, when
they were declared suffrage they were all
happy they had more rights and that they
got victory.

Artifact #2 secondary source.

Stanley nelson Quote

“Since they couldn’t vote they didn’t feel
like they were part of America.”Stanley
Nelson.

The freedom summers was
organized because the African
Americans felt as if they were
not true Americans. Above
Stanley Nelson explains. This
wasn’t fair that all residence
of America didn’t feel like
they belonged there. So they
organized a Civil Rights
Movement.

Works cited

Altman, Susan, and Joel Kemelhor. Encyclopedia of
African-American Heritage . Checkmark Books, 2000.
Davidson, James West. America: History of Our Nation . Pearson
Prentice Hall, 2009.
“Stanley Nelson Reveals the Real Black Panther Party.” PBS,
Public Broadcasting Service,
www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/stanley-nelson-reveals-the-real
-black-panther-party/.

Nobles, Prof. Melissa. “Social Movements in Comparative
Perspective.” MIT OpenCourseWare, About MIT OpenCourseWare MIT
OpenCourseWare Makes the Materials Used in the Teaching of
Almost All of MIT's Subjects Available on the Web, Free of
Charge. With More than 2,400 Courses Available, OCW Is
Delivering on the Promise of Open Sharing of Knowledge. Learn
More »,

Works cited continued...

“What Works? Votes.” MADE IN AMERICA, 30 Nov. 2011,
madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/what-works-vot
es/.
Yoyita. “Freedom Summer 1964 or Civil Rights.” Civil Rights
Atelier Yoyita Art Gallery, 7 Dec. 1995,
www.yoyita.com/civilrights.htm.


Click to View FlipBook Version