Freedom Summer
Summer of 1964
Blacks were allowed to vote because of the fifteenth amendment but whites set poll taxes and literacy tests to try and stop the African Americans from voting. Freedom Summer was a highly publicized campaign to get blacks voting rights, particularly in Mississippi. It was set up and organized by student groups and other groups like CORE and NAACP. The event had violence and ended with 2 whites being shot and a black being beaten. Freedom Summer led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.