AAAS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fannie Lou Hamer, Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Notes 8-2-16
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
12:35 PM
John Lewis: Freedom Rider, led Bloody Sunday, which was in Selma, AL which was about giving black
people voting rights., SNCC chairman
Fannie Lou Hamer: Organized Freedom Summer in MS, which attempted to register black people and
help out the communities, instrumental in SNCC, became vice chair of Freedom Democratic Party, was
very outspoken with the Black Feminist movement
1. Birmingham
2. Shift to Voter Registration
1. Organizing Tactics
2. Freedom Summer
3. MS Freedom Democratic Party
4. Deacons for Defense
3. Summer of 1964
1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
2. Summer of Riots
3. Election of 1965
4. Selma
5. Voting Rights Act of 1965
6. Northern Organizing
1. Detroit
2. NYC Student Boycott
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