In what ways did the Mississippi Freedom Summer mobilize a new group of activists for the civil rights movement, and with what results?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Goals of the project: A coalition led by SNCC launched this project to register black voters and challenge segregation in Mississippi; Bob Moses and Dave Dennis planned Freedom Summer to open the state's closed society controlled by a small white-planter elite; more than 900 volunteers, mostly white college students, aided in voter registration, taught in "freedom schools," and helped build the "Freedom Party" as an alternative to the state's all-white Democratic Party
- Divisions within the participants: black SNCC veterans resented the affluent white volunteers, many of whom still had their own racial prejudices; sexual tensions between black male and white female volunteers strained relations; black and white women raised the issue of women's equality as a companion goal to racial equality
- Concrete accomplishments: riveted national attention on Mississippi racism and won enormous sympathy from northern liberals; established more than 40 freedom schools for African American children; 60,000 black voters joined the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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