Most African Americans either did not care about voting, or theY did not want to risk the violence that always seemed to occur when an African American individual tried to get involved in political processes. The first line in Charles M. Payne’s article says, “As late at 1960, fewer than two percent of Mississippi’s black adults were registered to vote. During the summer of 1962, a handful of youthful organizers fanned out across the state to stimulate voter-registration drives.” Less than two percent of adults is a tiny percent of the whole population. That is why voting is the place that most reformist began to start. The organizers that really started it was SNCC activist that participated in the Council of Federated Organizations(COFO). After trying countlessly to get African Americans to become involved in the voting process, SNCC finally began to break through with the help of Freedom
Most African Americans either did not care about voting, or theY did not want to risk the violence that always seemed to occur when an African American individual tried to get involved in political processes. The first line in Charles M. Payne’s article says, “As late at 1960, fewer than two percent of Mississippi’s black adults were registered to vote. During the summer of 1962, a handful of youthful organizers fanned out across the state to stimulate voter-registration drives.” Less than two percent of adults is a tiny percent of the whole population. That is why voting is the place that most reformist began to start. The organizers that really started it was SNCC activist that participated in the Council of Federated Organizations(COFO). After trying countlessly to get African Americans to become involved in the voting process, SNCC finally began to break through with the help of Freedom