Mississippi racism in the 60s
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Discrimination and prejudice were normalised, and black people were seen as inferior (scientific racism—Nordic races were superior, while blacks were inferior and polluted the white race) Black people faced violence (lynchings, beatings), limited employment and …
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In the late 1970s, the Black Liberation Movement began to slowly regroup from the state’s (U.S. Imperialism’s) attacks waged against it during the 1960s and early 1970s. The United League of Mississippi successfully fought the KKK, and united fronts and coalitions formed and mobilized against police murders and racist mayors.
[DOC File]“Mississippi Burning” - SPA
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Filmmaker’s Statement—Paul Saltzman: In the summer of 1965, I was in the Mississippi Delta doing voter registration work with SNCC—the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee—and, like many other civil rights workers, was assaulted and jailed. Mississippi was known to us as "the belly of the beast” of southern racism and segregation.
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Freedom Summer was a voter registration drive in Mississippi. Freedom Summer led directly to the campaign by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)- to take the seats of the State’s all white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
[DOC File]The Black Liberation Movement at the Crossroads
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The 24th Amendment eliminated poll taxes, and in the “freedom summer” of 1964, both Blacks and White students joined to combat discrimination and racism. However, in June of 1964, a Black and two White civil rights workers were found murdered, and 21 White Mississippians were arrested for the murders, but the all-White jury refused to ...
[DOCX File]The Mississippi Summer Project 50th Anniversary Reunion
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Although Posey comes from a prominent Mississippi family, he was active in the civil rights movement in the early '60s. He will tell you, with not a little bit of pride in his voice, that he was the first white person in Mississippi to join the NAACP. He now lives in Oxford, where he receives a small disability pension.
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The Mississippi Summer Project 50th Anniversary Reunion. ... Greenwood was a Movement center—the place where the first major cracks in the wall of Mississippi racism were broken open. ... The Freedom Singers sang old Movement songs. I always enjoy both the songs and the singers. Back in the ‘60s, they led us in those songs during some of ...
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