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King Encyclopedia |
 | | The 1964 Freedom Summer Project, which focused on voter registration and the education of fl students, offered the possibility of a campaign that could bring about the kind of national publicity that was so desperately needed to bring about change in Mississippi. |
| | During the summer of 1964, SNCC leaders also set their sights on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), an alternative to the Mississippi "Jim Crow" Democratic Party. |
| | The Summer Project marked one of the last major interracial civil rights efforts of the 1960s, as the movement entered a period of divisive conflict that would draw even sharper lines between the goals of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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