26. Document Project 26: Freedom Summer

Quiz for Document 26.5 Prospectus for Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964

Quiz for Document 26.5: Prospectus for Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) choose to focus on Mississippi?

Because it had worse violence than elsewhere

Because of the economic depression within the state

Because it had particularly bad leadership

Because the population size was significant

2. What did the SNCC organizers believe was necessary to truly change Mississippi for the better in the area of race relations?

Federal involvement

Media attention

Increasing violence

A new president

3. Why was voter registration particularly important in the context of the mid-twentieth century?

The 1964 contest was a particularly contentious presidential election.

Jim Crow laws had eliminated many black voters since the 1800s.

SNCC hoped to elect a black president in the 1964 election.

African Americans had only just received the right to vote in federal elections.

4. Why were Freedom Schools necessary in Mississippi in 1964?

The lack of available teachers

The lack of a state school system

The history of racially unequal education

The lack of existing colleges for higher education

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