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Peaceful Protest after 1963
Freedom Summer 1964
SNCC and CORE set up 'Freedom Summer' in Mississippi
1,000 (roughly) volunteers went to Mississippi to work with local campaigners on projects in the black community.
Voter registration was important, because 1964 was an election year.
Volunteers were mainly white college students from good families, they were chosen because they could pay their way and their class and colour would make any violence against them bigger news.
Some taught in Freedom schools for black children
Others held voter registration classes to teach locals how to pass the voter registration tests.
There was a lot of white opposition, the volunteers knew they were putting themselves and black Mississippians in danger.
Many white Mississippians called the project an invasion and argued that the northern students did not understand the South.
KKK members burned 61 crosses at the same time across the state to show their power and anger. During the summer they burned 37 black churches and 30 homes
Selma
Campaigning for fair and equal voting rights
Protesting against the registration tests
On the 7th March, about 600 protesters set out to march from Selma to Montgomery.
The USA made world headlines for its abuse of black people
State troopers stopped them at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, just outside Selma, firing tear gas and attacking protesters with clubs and electric cattle prods. The protesters fled
Birmingham
SNCC, SCLC and ACMHR began campaign 'C' for 'confrontation'
Birmingham was completely segregated
It included sit-ins, mass meetings, peaceful protest marches and boycotts.
Hundreds of protesters were arrested within the first few weeks.
Most of the adults who took part had been put in jail, so James Bevel of SNCC trained young black people to demonstrate.
On 2 May about 6,00 people marched, mostly they were students, but there were some as young as 6.
Over 900 people (of all ages) were arrested
The next day, more young people marched, the jails were full so 'Bull' Connor ordered the police to use dogs and fire hoses on the protesters
The news reports and photos of the event spread worldwide, causing horror.
President Kennedy said that the photos made him feel sick and ashamed
The March on Washington
Over 250,000 people took part
Martin Luther King made his famous speech 'I have a dream' there
It involved people all over the USA
It was protesting for Jobs and Freedom
It was broadcasted live on TV in the USA and world wide
Black and White people protested peacefully together