Got Vote?
Page 113, From Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, by Zita Allen, copyright 1996.
The Freedom Summer of 1964 was a “demand for political empowerment” for the blacks of the south. Volunteer activists launched a massive campaign to register blacks in the south to vote. This was to trigger the most confrontational and dangerous of all civil rights direct action.
“…three young Freedom Summer volunteers disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, after being arrested by local police on trumped-up traffic charges. The bullet-riddled bodies of James Chaney, and eighteen-year-old SNCC staffer from Meridian, Michael Schwerner, a twenty-five-year-old Brooklyn-born CORE orangizer in Meridian, and Andrew Goodman, a twenty-year-old Queens College student summer volunteer, were not found until mid-August, after an extensive search by local and federal authorities. According to one pathologist, James Chaney’s badly mutilated body resembled that of an airplane crash victim.”
The Freedom Summer of 1964 was a “demand for political empowerment” for the blacks of the south. Volunteer activists launched a massive campaign to register blacks in the south to vote. This was to trigger the most confrontational and dangerous of all civil rights direct action.
“…three young Freedom Summer volunteers disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, after being arrested by local police on trumped-up traffic charges. The bullet-riddled bodies of James Chaney, and eighteen-year-old SNCC staffer from Meridian, Michael Schwerner, a twenty-five-year-old Brooklyn-born CORE orangizer in Meridian, and Andrew Goodman, a twenty-year-old Queens College student summer volunteer, were not found until mid-August, after an extensive search by local and federal authorities. According to one pathologist, James Chaney’s badly mutilated body resembled that of an airplane crash victim.”
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