Mississippi Freedom Summer

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Mississippi_Freedom_Summer

GPTKB entity

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	civil rights campaign
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Freedom_Summer
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:endDate	1964
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Mississippi Freedom Summer
gptkbp:legacy	increased African American voter registration highlighted racial injustice in the South influenced federal civil rights legislation inspired future civil rights activism
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Mississippi
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	national and international press
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:murder_of_Chaney,_Goodman,_and_Schwerner Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party formation arrests of activists church burnings establishment of Freedom Schools violence against volunteers
gptkbp:notableParticipant	gptkb:Rita_Schwerner gptkb:Andrew_Goodman gptkb:Bob_Moses gptkb:Dave_Dennis gptkb:Fannie_Lou_Hamer gptkb:James_Chaney gptkb:Michael_Schwerner
gptkbp:opposedBy	white supremacists
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:purpose	civil rights activism education voter registration
gptkbp:relatedGroup	gptkb:African-American
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:CORE gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement gptkb:NAACP gptkb:SCLC gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 gptkb:SNCC gptkb:Freedom_Schools gptkb:Mississippi_Freedom_Democratic_Party
gptkbp:resultedIn	increased national attention to civil rights passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
gptkbp:startDate	1964
gptkbp:volunteers	over 1,000
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee gptkb:SNCC
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5