1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project commemorated Saturday [Video]

Civil Rights activists, authors, and more share with Memphians the 60-year anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer project.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The National Civil Rights Museum hosted a community symposium on the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project Saturday.

The events of that summer are being deemed as one of the last interracial civil rights efforts of the 1960’s. This project was designed to put national attention to the violent oppression experienced by Mississippi Black residents who were trying to vote.

Civil rights activist and former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizer (SNCC) Judy Richardson told ABC24 many in the present day take for granted their righting votes. She said that some people 60 years ago were killed for trying to register to vote.

“How do you get Black people to register to vote without getting them killed?” Richardson said. “That was the main concern.”

Richardson said many people …