Freedom Summer (1964 civil rights movement)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Freedom_Summer_(1964_civil_rights_movement)

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	civil rights campaign
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Mississippi_Summer_Project
gptkbp:endDate	August 1964
gptkbp:goal	establish Freedom Schools establish community centers increase African American voter registration
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Freedom Summer (1964 civil rights movement)
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Mississippi
gptkbp:notableEvent	murder of Andrew Goodman murder of James Chaney murder of Michael Schwerner
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:Bernard_Lafayette gptkb:Ella_Baker gptkb:James_Bevel gptkb:John_Lewis gptkb:Medgar_Evers gptkb:Stokely_Carmichael gptkb:Charles_Evers gptkb:Mary_King gptkb:Ed_King gptkb:Rita_Schwerner gptkb:Unita_Blackwell gptkb:Amzie_Moore gptkb:Andrew_Goodman gptkb:Annie_Devine gptkb:Betty_Garman gptkb:Betty_Garman_Robinson gptkb:Bob_Moses gptkb:Bob_Zellner gptkb:Charles_McDew gptkb:Charles_Sherrod gptkb:Cleveland_Sellers gptkb:Courtland_Cox gptkb:Dave_Dennis gptkb:Diane_Nash gptkb:Dorie_Ladner gptkb:Dorothy_Height gptkb:Dorothy_Zellner gptkb:Fannie_Lou_Hamer gptkb:Hollis_Watkins gptkb:Ivanhoe_Donaldson gptkb:James_Chaney gptkb:James_Forman gptkb:James_Lawson gptkb:Jean_Wiley gptkb:Joan_Trumpauer_Mulholland gptkb:Judy_Richardson gptkb:Lawrence_Guyot gptkb:Marion_Barry gptkb:Michael_Schwerner gptkb:Prathia_Hall gptkb:Robert_Parris_Moses gptkb:Ruby_Doris_Smith-Robinson gptkb:Sam_Block gptkb:Victoria_Gray_Adams gptkb:Willie_Blue gptkb:Willie_Peacock gptkb:Willie_Ricks gptkb:Casey_Hayden gptkb:Charles_Cobb_Jr. gptkb:Charles_McLaurin gptkb:Charles_Neblett gptkb:Aaron_Henry Moses Wright Mickey Schwerner John O'Neal James W. Loewen Victoria Gray
gptkbp:opposedBy	Ku Klux Klan local law enforcement
gptkbp:organizedBy	gptkb:Congress_of_Racial_Equality gptkb:NAACP gptkb:Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference gptkb:Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee gptkb:Council_of_Federated_Organizations
gptkbp:relatedGroup	gptkb:African-American
gptkbp:resultedIn	gptkb:Mississippi_Freedom_Democratic_Party
gptkbp:startDate	June 1964
gptkbp:type	gptkb:initiative voter registration drive
gptkbp:volunteers	over 1,000
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Canton,_Mississippi,_USA
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7