Chapter nine of John Hollitz’s novel, Thinking Through the Past, tells about the Civil Rights Movement in the mid nineteenth century. Not only does this chapter talk about civil rights, but it also talks about the grassroot struggle in Mississippi during the sixties. The Civil Rights Movement itself can be categorized as a time when a large group of citizens lead a movement to give equality to all, especially African Americans. The main problems in Mississippi at the time were voting and education. These programs were lead by Freedom Summer and Student Involvement Coordinating Committee. These groups lead the African American population in Mississippi to recognize the injustices they were facing, and then offering ways to fix the problems all together.
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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