Freedom Summer Documentary

This documentary is about African Americans' voting rights in Mississippi in 1964. In 1964, a very small number of African American men were registered to vote. The people living in Mississippi did everything possible to stop African Americans from being able to vote.

The African Americans had such a hard time registering to vote because they had to pass a very hard literacy test and they would have to pay money to register. The African Americans were also afraid to register to vote because their names would be published i the newspaper and passed around so everyone knew who voted. By letting everyone know who was registered to vote the employers who had employees who registered were usually fired and/or not given a job to.

In the end of the documentary the movie states that the people who were against these actions in Mississippi thought of ways to help. The idea of having white students from the northern states become activists for 10 weeks and help more African American register to vote. The activists were then going to help force the rest of the country realize what wrong doings the People in Mississippi are doing. Which they hoped would help the situation and have more people take charge and help the African Americans.