Freedom Summer, 1964, aimed to register thousands of Black voters in Mississippi and dismantle the system of Confederate fascism that hindered democracy, with only 1,600 out of the 17,000 Black voters successfully registered due to violent opposition.
The tragic murder of civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney during Freedom Summer in 1964 underscored the violent resistance by Mississippi politicians, election officials, and the Ku Klux Klan against the project's goals.
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