What was the purpose of Freedom Summer? to bring national attention to the growing strength of Klan members in Mississippi to register new candidates for local office across the state of Mississippi to address the failure of the Civil Rights Act to include a provision on voting rights in the South to provide field experience for new recruits to CORE and SNCC to bring down the Democratic Party and secure the Republican majority in Congress.

What was the purpose of Freedom Summer? to bring national attention to the growing strength of Klan members in Mississippi to register new candidates for local office across the state of Mississippi to address the failure of the Civil Rights Act to include a provision on voting rights in the South to provide field experience for new recruits to CORE and SNCC to bring down the Democratic Party and secure the Republican majority in Congress.