Title: Freedom Summer and “Good Things”: Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1970
Abstract: "Risking everything for change, ordinary black Mississippians led the way by daring to attack from within the beast of white supremacy, segregation and discrimination. Plantation worker, student, maid, the employed and the unemployed, joined with civil rights workers from inside and outside the state in a great struggle for freedom—to continue the struggle that began when the first African slaves looked out from the auction block at this strange and faraway land." These words are from the brochure inviting people to the 1994 celebration of Freedom Summer, which had been held thirty years earlier in Mississippi. In the early sixties, the various civil rights groups working in Mississippi formed the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and set the course of Freedom Summer. It changed Mississippi forever.KeywordsHead StartWhite StudentShade TreeCitizenship EducationWhite SupremacyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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