white is bob moses bring it back? the main director but effectively the codirector. -- is technically the codirector. what is moses trying to accomplish? go ahead, caleb. >> proving that blacks do want to vote. prof. shrock: that is right. how does he accomplish this? nathan, go ahead. i'm pretty sure it was a false voting campaign to find out how many people wanted to vote but couldn't anyway. prof. shrock: how many people voted in the freedom election of 1963? just shout out the number. how many? voted.people that is a clear demonstration that there are people in mississippi that want to vote. but, bob moses learned a really important lesson when he was working during the freedom election. opposed, bob moses was to bringing in white volunteers, but civil rights attorney suggested the white volunteers be brought in. some 60 students from yale and harvard who were white were brought in. what does this do for freedom election? happenes moses realize when those students from elite university show up? it brings national a

when those students came down, bob moses saw the opportunity. the press followed those students. mind, with alln of the levels of violence we have seen in mississippi already that bob has experienced for three years, he decides that the way to try and crack mississippi white young in 1000 college student volunteers to work on voter registration and other civil rights activities in the summer of 1964. he proposes this plan. this to follow -- two cofo. how do they respond to this him to bring in 1000 young, white volunteers? caleb, what was their response? that's right. what would 1000 white volunteers do to the beloved community they had created? don't give a wrong, you know there are white people in sncc. it had been founded by both blacks and whites in membership from the beginning. african-americans had always been the majority. there is a concern of bringing in this white -- this many white volunteers. .t does have a lasting impact it does cause significant structural change. initially, the staff members vote no. at this illustrates the importance and the ability to convince hi

you couldn't not do anything but the trigger was an extraordinary man named bob moses was organizing project in mississippi, the first civil rights worker to work in this in the heart of the iceberg, rural mississippi was the toughest territory for the civil rights movement. bob came up with a plan, they were not making progress registering black voters in mississippi but being killed and arrested by the hundreds. bob was arrested and beat up and this is all happening in the dark down here. the nation doesn't know about this. if washington simply do, what was going on down here, it would change, legislation would get passed and we got to bring the spotlight into rural mississippi. you bring white students from colleges up north and when they coming to mississippi the national press will follow and this will be a national story and we can take our case to the democratic convention in 1964 and a lot of us went by firebreathing -- part of -- the civil rights movement was a church led movement was i wake up someday and where is the church? where are those great thundering progressive voi

he talks about the efforts of leaders such as bob moses to include white volunteers in order to bring media attention to mississippi. this class is about one hour and 10 minutes. prof. shrock: they were going to continue our walk of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960's.

in 1960 four, bob moses set up the freedom schools. 1964, bob moses set up the freedom schools. the word was out. husbandy callan, whose and television, was accompanying her husband to england to she wrote to me, part are theshe said, here mixed messages about the freedom schools. i think it would be good if we had interracial teams go into and do some service, carrier message and the like -- carry our message and the like, and be in support of the gent people who will be down there working. we developed that idea. together,an and i, set up a whole plan. we trained our staff here we had to have an interracial staff. but the idea was it we would have interracial teams of women, all of whom had have some talent. it wasn't to be a visit. they had to contribute something in the schools. they also had to commit onmselves to preparing tuesday, going out on wednesday. we met separately in a racial groups in the daytime. met together in the evening as an interracial group and left on thursday. but in the course of all of this, they had to agree that they were engaged in solar rights in

julijulie was a legend working h us and bob moses came down the hall one day.the two greatest similarities between my recollections of the movement int and the days in bon is the constant relentless struggle for money. my job was the northern campus coordinator i was supposed to be raising all this money it was incredibly difficult. i voted to raise the money and to spend taxpayer dollars prize on the prize which was the episode about why the state had arrested me 20 years before. we shared the apartment upstairs and very seldom left the building. we might go for a walk around the neighborhood but you get up in the morning and walked on fly to get to five flights of stairs into the activism and bloodshed and eating and complicated legislation and messy history to get a bite to eat and come back to work again until supper time and cook some chicken and then go back downstairs and work again. >> and the same was true it is driven by the same craziness. >> and book there's also this tenacity like this very driven parallel of getting people for the voter registrati

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the trigger was that an extraordinary man named bob moses was organizing a project in mississippi. was the very first civil rights worker. the toughest territory. and bob came up where they were not making any progress registering black voters. they are being arrested by the hundreds. bob was arrested and beat up. it's all happening in the dark. the nation doesn't know about this. if washington simply no if the party simply knew what was going on down here things would change legislation would get past. we've to bring the spotlight on to voting in rural mississippi. when they come into mississippi the national press is going to fall out. they could actually take the case to the democratic convention so a whole lot of us went. i was recruited by the fire breathing chaplain at vail. who is part of that. we forget that the civil rights movement was a church led movement. where those great thundering progressive voices. those guys were ministers. ministers of the gospel. they recruited a whole bunch of us in the fall of 1965. barney frank was in the group. and then i went down for the

lectures in history," professor joel frank hrockes -- professor joel s talks about the leaders such as bob moses to include white volunteers in order to bring media attention to mississippi. his class is about an hour and 10 minutes. they were going to continue our walk to the civil rights union -- civil rights movement. we have talked about the revival and how rights in 1960 that galvanizes the movement, gets it really moving again when .t has been it was college students who get that movement rolling again with 1960