Meredith protests and Freedom Summer

• When were the James Meredith protests?

  March 1962
• Where was the Meredith Protest?

  Mississippi
• What did James Meredith attempt to do?

  Enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi
• Who attempted to block James Meredith?

  Governor Ross Barnett
• What did Governor Barnett present?

  Official proclamation denying his entry to the university
• What formed when Meredith attempted to attend?

  A White mob which attacked black Americans
• What did the mobs lead to?

  Kennedy prepared the U.S military forces
• When was the incident while Meredith was escorted to his dorm?

  30th September 1962
• What was Meredith attacked with?

  Moltovs and Guns
• How many marshals and soldiers were injured?

  166 Marshals and 64 Americans soldiers injured
• How many civilians were killed as a result of the Meredith protest?

  2
• How many citizens were taken prisoner?

  300 citizens taken prisoner
• What continued after the Meredith protest?

  Military occupation of Oxford, Mississippi and Alabama for 10 months
• When was Meredith made the first black American student at Mississippi University?

  August 18th 1962
• When did he become the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi?

  1963, with his degree in Political Science
• What did Meredith's graduation lead to?

  A 2nd Protest
• When was the Freedom Summer?

  1964
• Where was the Freedom Summer?

  Mississippi
• Who led the Freedom Summer?

  The SNCC
• Who were the three SNCC members killed?

  Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman
• When were Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman killed?

  June 1964
• What was the Freedom Summer?

  A major voting registration campaign in Mississippi
• What did the FS lead to?

  The creation of the Mississippi Free Democratic party
• What did the new Democratic party allow for?

  The arrival of the official Democratic state party
• How many black people were registered voters prior to FS?

  Only 1% despite them being 40% of Mississippi's population
• What percentage of black Americans in the South could vote as of 1941?

  3%
• What percentage of black Americans in Mississippi could vote by 1960?

  5.2%
• Who worked within the SNCC?

  Local activists and Thousands of Northern college students
• What were set up to help black voters?

  Freedom schools to educate them
• Who were targeted by the SNCC?

  Black sharecroppers
• What did the SNCC face?

  Violent opposition from law enforcement and white residents
• What often happened to SNCC members?

  They were often arrested by local police or beaten
• What else did opposition do?

  Destroyed dozens of homes, businesses and churches
• Who was the Deputy Attorney General in 1962?

  Burke Marshall
• What did Marshall report in 1962?

  That 'racial denials of the right to vote' existed in 8 states
• What percentage of black Americans could vote in Alabama?

  14%
• What else was reported by Marshall?

  Eleven Southern counties with major black populations had no registered black voters
• What was observed about a county in Louisiana?

  No black resident had been registered to vote since 1900
• Who was Medgar Evens?

  A Civil Rights leader in Mississippi
• What did mobs stop Evans from doing?

  Stopped from voting by a white mob