<Dd> Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner </Dd> <Dd> March Against Fear </Dd> <P> Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African - American voters as possible in Mississippi . Blacks had been cut off from voting since the turn of the century due to barriers to voter registration and other laws . The project also set up dozens of Freedom Schools, Freedom Houses, and community centers in small towns throughout Mississippi to aid the local black population . </P> <P> The project was organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of the Mississippi branches of the four major civil rights organizations (SNCC, CORE, NAACP and SCLC). Most of the impetus, leadership, and financing for the Summer Project came from the SNCC . Robert Parris Moses (Bob Moses), SNCC field secretary and co-director of COFO, directed the summer project . </P>

A 1964 project to register african-american voters in mississippi