Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer, in the summer of 1964, assembled hundreds of activists and college students around the nation in Mississippi and adjoining southern states, with the hopes of helping African- Americans register to vote. This Freedom Summer Project, led by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC [1], with assistance from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)[2], and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the formation of Freedom Schools, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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Main Page: Fannie Lou Hamer
"All my life I’ve been sick and tired. Now I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired."
"They take me from my husband and they take my home from me. But still, at the next election, I will be there, voting just as much as white folks vote."
"Sometimes it feel like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off."
"There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people."