In the summer of 1964, a movement called freedom summer took place which was an activist movement to get African Americans in the southern states to vote. The movement was led by an activist group called Congress on Racial Equality or CORE. Three civil rights workers were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. On June 21,1964, the three activist movements were declared deceased. The three civil rights worker was: two white males, Michael Schwerner, a 24 year old from Brooklyn, New York, and Andrew Goodman, a 20 year old from New York, New York and an African American James Chaney, a 21 year old from Meridian, Mississippi. These men were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for trying to give aid to the African Americans in the southern state of Mississippi, where the KKK was very active in. Michael Schwerner was working around Neshoba County in Mississippi to register black voters, open freedom schools, and boycott business owned by white people. The clan didn’t take lightly of this and the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights, Sam Bowers gave orders to activate plan 4, which was the …show more content…
The klan caught word of this and decided to organize in attempts of capturing Michael. After 10 P.M, the Mount Zion Congregation meeting had finished. Ten people, seven men and three women, were faced with thirty KKK men armed with shotguns and rifles. Expecting Michael to return from a business meeting, the clan realized they were misinformed and that Michael was actually in Oxford, Ohio attending a three day CORE seminar. Frustrated, they beat the ten people and with ten gallons of diesel fuel, they burned the church of Mount Zion as a warning. After hearing about the incident, Michael went to the investigate on June 20 in a blue CORE owned Ford station wagon. Michael left the CORE seminar with James and a Queen’s college student named Andrew
In June, 1964 in MIssissippi three civil rights workers took a cause in the Civil Rights Movement. The three workers were James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. The workers had gotten a speeding ticket while they were coming back from the Mt. Zion Church. The men had received this ticket on the Mississippi Highway 19.
Since the historically deadly shooting that occurred at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, it has been fifty-one years. There was also another attack on a southern black church that was allegedly bombed by the Ku Klux Klan on September 15th, 1963. In all the ramshackle, four young girls were unfortunately caught in between the incidences and they lost their lives. Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins were 14 years old when the bombing took place; Denise McNair was 11 years old (Kadzin, 2008). Denise McNair was a very close friend to Gwen Moten.
The events that happen to the signing of the civil rights act of 1964 were very crazy and made a great impact on today 's society. Despite low approval rating LBJ was still fighting for what he believes is right. LBJ 's background was that he was always around racism and he didnt think it was right. He taught as a teacher in texas. While others think he should sign the civil rights act of 1964 it was not politics wanting to get signed again.
On September 15, 1963 the group made a dreadful act. They placed a bomb under a staircase to the basement of 16th Street Birmingham Baptist Church. Four Girls, Denise McNair, who was eleven, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins, which were all 14, were killed in the bomb that exploded at 10:19 a.m(gale group). Twenty-two other people got injured, but were fortunate enough to survive. Former KKK members that included veterans supposedly committed the crime.
In September 1963 four little girls from Birmingham, Alabama, were killed by a bomb that was planted by white supremacists at the 16th St. Baptist Church. Over 20 African Americans were injured. The children were as young as 7 or 8 years old. Even after such tragedy, children continued their efforts to end segregation by marching with Martin Luther King Jr.
The United States changed in more ways than one as a result of the Freedom Summer of 1964. It changed socially as well as politically. The staff and volunteers of the Freedom Summer not only brought awareness to the disenfranchisement of African-Americans in Mississippi, but also to the conditions which plagued Mississippi and its people. The Mississippi Summer Project encouraged many African-American Mississippians to participate in local, state, and national elections. It also helped African-Americans establish a new political party called the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP).
The 1960s era was quite the controversial time, debating between if segregation was the way to go or the complete opposite, integration. African Americans during this time were fighting for equality and acceptance in their communities. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 specifically outlaws any discrimination, this meaning :race, color, religion, sex, and etc. In a community, working together brings unity and equality in the environment. Malcolm X thought segregation was the path to follow, but separate doesn’t mean equal.
Work Cited Men of Honor. Dir. Tillman, George Jr.. Perf. Robert DeNiro, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Charlize Theron. Twentieth Century Fox, 2000.
On July 02, 1964 , Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibited against people discriminating against another because of their skin color , so everybody was treated equally. L.B.J he became president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963 and L.B.J took office the next day. He finished what J.F.K wanted and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Political means some did it for votes or for something and principle means the person did something because it was the right thing to do. Why did L.B.J sign it was, it a political decision or was it a principle decision?
These men were presumed dead since reported missing. In times of fear and discrimination Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerne all fought for what they believed in. With this came their names to the public who did not agree with what they supported. This instance represents that same feeling, your morals are the biggest impact on your life. These men, knowing the serve consequences of fighting for civil rights changes knew the KKK would indeed be watching.
Freedom Summer, this was the year 1964. In the year of 1964 this day become popular because of the African American 's fighting for their freedom and for their rights to vote. The African American already had the right to vote, but then when it came to the women of the African Americans they didn 't have the rights to vote and that was the reason why freedom summer was made. Freedom Summer was a movement for the African American women so they can have their rights to vote. The men and women of the African Americans wanted to help as well and wanted to help get everyone their rights to have freedom.
They were treasted violently and like animals. They were building white supremacy. The men
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is hailed by many as one of the most important legislations in the American history. The act was passed into law 52 years ago under a lot of pressure and resistance from white senators and African American activists. The act, which was largely known as the “Bill of the century” was aimed at bringing equality for blacks and whites and end racial prejudice. The act was targeted to revolutionize America where blacks and whites would eat together in the same hotels and enjoy similar rights in public places without any discrimination.
In this documentary about the Civil Rights Movement it shows actual footage of the struggles that African Americans went through to gain equal rights. In the documentary it shows various monumental moments throughout the movement, such as the sit ins that began in 1960, also the freedom rides that started in 1961, or the violence in both Birmingham and Selma. In all of these movements there are grave injustices with innocent people being attacked, beaten, and even killed. One of the first major movements of the Civil Rights Movement was the sit ins that started before the movement started. The first known sit in started in 1939 in New York.