Freedom Summer

• • Between 1962 and 1964, 700,000 black Americans had registered to vote in the South, but this was still little compared to the amount of blacks living there
  • The SNCC and CORE sent volunteers to Mississippi to increase black voter registration
• • Many volunteers were white college students who taught people how to pass the voter registration tests
  • They faced huge opposition from the KKK who burnt black churches and homes
  • Only 1,600 out of 17,000 black people who tried to register to vote were successful