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The freedom summer
Our Man on the Mississippi - 1964 was released on: USA: 2 February 1964
Mississippi Goddam was created in 1964.
The cast of Our Man on the Mississippi - 1964 includes: David Brinkley as Himself - - Narrator
1964
The students were murdered.
The students were murdered.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was created in 1964.
Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey was created on 1964-10-18.
During the summer of 1964, thousands of activists in the Civil Rights Movement, many of them white college students from the North, descended on Mississippi and other Southern states to try to end the long-time political disfranchisement of African Americans in the region. Although black men won the right to vote in 1870, thanks to the 15th Amendment, for the next 100 years many were unable to exercise that right. It was called 'freedom summer'.
Mississippi
Ross R. Barnett (born January 22, 1898 in Standing Pine, Mississippi; died November 6, 1987 in Jackson, Mississippi) succeeded James P. Coleman as the fifty-second Governor of Mississippi, serving between January 19, 1960 and January 21, 1964. Following the end of Barnett's term as Governor, Paul B. Johnson Jr. (born January 23, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; died October 14, 1985 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) became the fifty-third Governor of Mississippi, serving between January 21, 1964 and January 16, 1968.