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The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project

Discover the impact of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project through voter registration, Freedom Schools, and challenging segregation. Explore key events, people, opposition, and results that shaped the civil rights movement. Learn how this initiative laid the groundwork for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project

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  1. The 1964 Mississippi Freedom SummerProject

  2. Outline • What Was Freedom Summer? • Goals and Objectives • Who Participated? • Who Opposed Freedom Summer? • What Happened? • What Were Some Results? • Learn More

  3. What Was Freedom Summer?

  4. A Closed Society

  5. Disenfranchisement

  6. Goals and Objectives

  7. Goals Increase Voter Registration

  8. Goals Set Up Freedom Schools

  9. Goals Open Community Centers

  10. Goals Map of Freedom Summer Project Sites

  11. Goals Create the Freedom Democratic Party

  12. Goals Challenge the Democratic National Committee

  13. Who Participated?

  14. Who Civil Rights Organizations

  15. Who ca. 120 Paid Staff of Civil Rights Groups John Lewis, SNCC Dave Dennis, CORE

  16. Who 60,000 Local Residents

  17. Some Key People

  18. Who Bob Moses and Dave Dennis

  19. Who Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman

  20. Who Fannie Lou Hamer

  21. Who Annie Devine, Aaron Henry and Victoria Gray

  22. Who Opposed Freedom Summer?

  23. Opposition Mississippi State Officials Sen. John C. Stennis Gov. Ross Barnett & Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson Sen. James O. Eastland

  24. Opposition Law Enforcement

  25. Opposition Local Businesses

  26. Opposition Racist Vigilante Groups

  27. What Happened?

  28. What Happened Orientation in Oxford, Ohio, June 15-29

  29. What Happened Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner

  30. What Happened Non-Violent Resistance

  31. What Happened Voter registration

  32. What Happened Freedom Schools

  33. What Happened Democratic National Convention challenge

  34. What Happened Freedom Election, Oct. 31-Nov. 2

  35. What Happened Congressional Challenge, January 1965

  36. What Were Some Results?

  37. Results Consciousness Raising

  38. Results Political Skills

  39. Results Black Power

  40. After 1965 Voting Rights Act

  41. Learn More • Thousands of archival records documenting the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project are online at • wisconsinhistory.org/freedomsummer • View hundreds of images • Download key documents • Browse a timeline with links to related primary sources • Find all 1,600 volunteers and staff • Download this PowerPoint

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