MS in the Postwar Period

*Civil Rights are the basic rights of citizens, such as free speech and the right to vote, privacy, and property ownership.

Separate-but-equal concept *In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legally established this concept. *This concept allowed states to pass laws to segregate public facilities for blacks and whites.

The Crisis at Ole Miss *James Meredith was the 1 st African American to be enrolled at the University of Mississippi. – It was long hard journey… This caused riots and tons of chaos on campus. – *Things got so harsh, Mississippi National Guardsman and twenty thousand federal troops were sent to Oxford.

The Civil Rights Movement Throughout the 1960’s, a number of organizations and individuals worked to end segregation and to register black Mississippians to vote. (NAACP, SNCC) *Tougaloo College faculty members and students conducted protests and sit-ins (demonstrations where people enter a public facility and refuse to leave) to desegregate the Jackson Public Library.

**Freedom Summer (1964)** *Over a thousand college students, most of them white, traveled to MS to conduct schools for black children and to help black citizens register to vote. When they were here, they lived in black homes.. Their presence made many white Mississippians angry. – By August, 4 people had died, 80 beaten, over a 1,000 arrested… Also, 67 Churches, homes, and businesses had been burned down or bombed.

Freedom Summer Continued… The most notable deaths that happened were those in Neshoba County. *Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney… They were investigating a Church being burned. (They were arrested, released, then abducted and murdered.)

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