November 1, 1963
The “Freedom Vote” held on this day was a mock election in Mississippi involving African American who had been denied the right to register to vote, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to dramatize the fact that only 7 percent of the potentially eligible African-American voters were actually registered. The Freedom Vote inspired Freedom Summer, in which about 1,000 white northern college students were recruited to help African-Americans register to vote.
