Question 2 (From Reading pp. 67-72): What aspect of the "Freedom Summer" you found most significant? Why? …show more content…
The National Association of Colored People (NAACP) and other associations worked really hard in their effort to register more black people to participate in the elections. However, the fight was not easy. Black people were arrested, sprayed with paint, pepper was thrown in their eyes, were beaten, and were attacked in many other violent ways. However, as our textbook states, “There is no denying the effect that Freedom Summer had on Mississippi’s blacks. In 1964, 6.7% of Mississippi’s voting age blacks were registered to vote. By 1969, the number had leaped to 66%” (p 71). At the end of the road, black people won the