SOC 481 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cuban Missile Crisis, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Umber
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All describing the extraordinary events from early june to late august 1964. These volunteers did two things in mississippi registering black voters, and ditching in freedom summer school. The volunteers experienced a sense of liberation that came with exposure to new lifestyles-international relationships; a communal living; open sexuality-new political ideologies that included radical and critical perspectives on united states. The project and goateed the ideals of interventionism nonviolence and liberal left coalition that was so much a part of the progressive vision of that era. The volunteers were liberals not radicals, reformers rather than revolutionaries. Freedom summer marked for the first time entrance of young whites into the civil rights movement. Whites of course had long been involved in the civil rights struggle. But in all thse cases the umber of white participants for small. By contrast the 1000 or so whites who came to mississippi for freedom summer represented deluge. The volunteers came from families of american privilege.
