Best describes the main activity of volunteers during Freedom Summer in Mississippi, 1964

African American teen from Chicago that was murdered in 1955, launching the Civil Rights Movement

U.S. Constitution amendment, ratified in 1964, that forbids the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes on voters during federal elections

Two immediate Mississippi reactions to the Brown v. Board of Education decision

Organization that worked to advance equality through legal action and advocacy and was a leading civil rights group in Mississippi

NAACP leader in Mississippi who nearly doubled membership while serving as field secretary and was later assassinated

Federal legislation that outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting

Main outcome of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?

Elected as governor in 1959 on the promise to keep Mississippi segregated

State funded agency created to resist the civil rights movement and desegregation in the United States from 1956 until its closure in 1973

Amount of time it took for desegregation to take place in MS schools

Young African Americans believed this would be their way to reach success

World War II campaign that used the slogan “Victory Abroad and Victory at Home” to demand equal freedoms for African American veterans

Purpose of Freedom Summer of 1964

Last constitution written in MS

Governor that was elected in 1964, marking a first for the Republican Party in Mississippi since Reconstruction

State-funded agency that actively worked to resist desegregation and the civil rights movement from 1956 to 1973

First black candidate to conduct a statewide campaign for MS governor

Legal principle that prevented the rearrest of Bryant and Milam after they admitted to killing Emmett Till