Freedom Summer of 1964: Black Americans’ Fight for Voting Rights | History Honors 250

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Freedom Summer 1964 was a massive voter registration campaign in Mississippi. The first interracial movement of its kind, the project was led by black southern organizers and staffed by both black and white volunteers. The monumental effort – and the violence the volunteers faced – brought the Civil Rights Movement into the homes of white Americans and shifted the tides in national voting rights legislation.

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