Freedom Summer

• 1964 - SNCC pushed for voter desegregation
• Lending large numbers of volunteers to South
• 45 volunteers - mostly white SNCC members teamed up with local organisations = black volunteers
• SNCC's Mississippi Project was called 'Freedom Summer'
• Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner
• June 20th, 1964 - three civil rights workers were murdered by the KKK
• 3 murders by end of summer