Mississippi Freedom Summer

Mississippi Freedom Summer (1964). Freedom Summer, also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the U.S. launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi.

Many students from New York City and colleges such as Oberlin trained in non-violence at Miami University of Ohio before being bused down to Mississippi.

See: Freedom Summer 1964 (June 23, 2010)