NOW, THEREFORE, I, Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan, do hereby proclaim Augas Freedom Summer Remembrance Day in Michigan. WHEREAS, on this day, we recognize the contributions of volunteer workers from Michigan who risked their lives for the cause of voting rights in America Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and, WHEREAS, Freedom Summer raised the consciousness of millions of people to the plight of Black people in America and the need for change. Civil-rights activists paved the way for us in 1964 when they created Freedom Summer, which led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act and laid the foundation for. Much of this violence was covered on national television and focused the country’s attention on civil rights issues and, California Freedom Summer (CFS), a participatory-action research project that will engage University of California undergraduate students, helps address. Freedom Summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the. The 1964 Freedom Summer project was designed to draw the nations attention to the violent oppression experienced by Mississippi blacks who attempted to. WHEREAS, volunteers were met by extraordinary violence, including murders, bombings, kidnappings, and torture. In 1964 the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the the National Association for the. Hundreds of volunteers, many of them college students from northern states, joined the fight in Mississippi against voter intimidation and discrimination at the polls, a systematic exclusion of Black people in America from the political process and, WHEREAS, Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. WHEREAS, the third Saturday of the month of August was chosen for Freedom Summer Remembrance Day to acknowledge volunteers from Michigan who, in the summer of 1964, risked their lives during Freedom Summer and,
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