Corruption In The Freedom Summer By Bruce Watson

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The Freedom Summer is a book by Bruce Watson written in 2010. The Freedom summer shows the corruption on Mississippi from 1964. In Mississippi Blacks were rationally segregated. Blacks were not allowed to walk past a white man with out kneeling before them and where schools and drinking fountains were labeled for each color of skin. Everyone in the 1960s only cared about skin color not about the person's value but on political values. In 1963 Mississippi was corrupt and the heart of evil was throughout the political structures. The Freedom Summer was a publicized campaign in the south to register blacks to vote during the summer of 1964 Bruce Watson who was from Massachusetts sent shivers down my spine as I read his …show more content…

In preparation of this they stayed in Ohio for a week and learned how to register to vote and about the dangers of segregation in Mississippi they also learned how to walk in a formation and they learned how to protect themselves in an nonviolent way. As John Kennedy said “those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing rights as well as reality”. Black men had won the voting right in 1870, because of the Fifteenth Amendment, the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race,color, or previous condition of servitude." for the next 100 years many were unable to exercise that right. White locals and officials from the state kept blacks from voting through methods, like poll taxes and literacy tests. Through cruder methods of fear and intimidation, which included beating. Blacks not being able to vote was only one of many problems African Americans encountered in the racist society they are in, the Civil Rights officials who decided to 0 in on voter registration. It was understood its crucial significance as well the white supremacists did.
Bob Moses played an important role in Freedom Summer. Bob Moses is an American educator and Civil Rights activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Right Movement. Moses spent 4 years on working on voter registration in Mississippi and played a crucial role in organizing the 1964 “Freedom Summer” campaign in which many of white and black volunteers traveled into the South to help Blacks demand their right to

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