A collection of archival video clips highlighting the African American struggle for equal voting rights in 1964. Looks at the Mississippi Freedom Summer where college students helped to register black voters, the murder of three of those volunteers, the signing of the Civil Rights Act, and at civil rights leaders Malcolm X and Fannie Lou Hamer.

Concepts

civil rights, civil rights leaders, voter registration, malcolm x

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Additional Tags

black vote, black voter registration, civil rights act, civil rights movement, fannie lou hamer, mississippi freedom summer, struggle for voting rights

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Practice