Corruption In The Freedom Summer By Bruce Watson

The Freedom Summer is a book by Bruce Watson written in 2010. The Freedom summer shows the corruption on Mississippi from 1964. In Mississippi Blacks were rationally segregated. Blacks were not allowed to walk past a white man with out kneeling before them and where schools and drinking fountains were labeled for each color of skin. Everyone in the 1960s only cared about skin color not about the person's value but on political values. In 1963 Mississippi was corrupt and the heart of evil was throughout the political structures. The Freedom Summer was a publicized campaign in the south to register blacks to vote during the summer of 1964

Bruce Watson who was from Massachusetts sent shivers down my spine as I read his

output on Civil rights as I have never seen anyone view it from the way he did before. Freedom Summer describes a timeline of when America claimed its demographic nature. This came with the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was to abolish segregation between nationalities. The south experienced numerous reforms and movement shifted the very nature of movement. The spawned riots and frustration as because the north was not experiencing the same level of prosperity felt in the south. Public outrage helped grow support for new laws and federal intervention. Volunteers who taught in Freedom Schools showed that it was okay to question the values and morals they were given. To preserve through and conquer the fear that had been instilled. When that fear was finally overthrown, the voting numbers after Freedom Summer jumped from a mere seven percent to over sixty percent of blacks who could cast a ballot. The Thesis for the book Freedom Summer I feel like is that racialism never changes no matter how many laws or acts are passed there will always be judged by their skin color not by their personality
In the book Freedom Summer, you see everyday people and ordinary college students take a stand and risk their lives to fight against the injustice of the south.

In preparation of this they stayed in Ohio for a week and learned how to register to vote and about the dangers of segregation in Mississippi they also learned how to walk in a formation and they learned how to protect themselves in an nonviolent way. As John Kennedy said “those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing rights as well as reality”. Black men had won the voting right in 1870, because of the Fifteenth Amendment, the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race,color, or previous condition of servitude." for the next 100 years many were unable to exercise that right. White locals and officials from the state kept blacks from voting through methods, like poll taxes and literacy tests. Through cruder methods of fear and intimidation, which included beating. Blacks not being able to vote was only one of many problems African Americans encountered in the racist society they are in, the Civil Rights officials who decided to 0 in on voter registration. It was understood its crucial significance as well the white supremacists did.

Bob Moses played an important role in Freedom Summer. Bob Moses is an American educator and Civil Rights activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Right Movement. Moses spent 4 years on working on voter registration in Mississippi and played a crucial role in organizing the 1964 “Freedom Summer” campaign in which many of white and black volunteers traveled into the South to help Blacks demand their right to

vote.
But the summer's most infamous act of violence was the murder of three young Civil Right volunteers, James Chaney a 21 African American from Mississippi, and Michael Schewerner who is 24 and Andrew Goodman who is 20 who were both Jews from New York went missing on the first day of June while the burning of the black church was being investigated. The three men were found beaten, shot and buried in a dam and found six weeks later. Freedom Summer activists faced threats and harassment throughout the campaign, not only from white supremacist groups, but from residents and police. Freedom School buildings and the volunteers' homes were the main targets, 37 black churches and 30 black houses and businesses were burned.
In 1964 the Democratic National Convention of the democratic party was at the Board walk hall in New Jersey. Lyndon B Johnson was nominated for full term at this time. The Democratic National Convention of the democratic party took place on August 24 through August 17 of 1964. At this convention MFDP also know as the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party claimed the delegates for Mississippi on infuring that delegation in Mississippi would have been elected for violating party rules because African Americans were systematically left out of voting in primaries and taking part of the precinct and country caucuses and the states convention. At the state convention Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates were all elected in compliance of the party rules.

Freedom Summer left a positive legacy. The Civil Rights act of 1965 and the voting Rights Act of 1965 passed in part because the country had been educated by Freedom Summer.