VSJ100 Paper Topics

The Freedom Summer campaign attracted young people, white and black, and put them in peril.

Why did they go?

The PBS Documentary, "Freedom Summer" is available to watch online through  Kanopy: 

https://www.kanopy.com/en/niagara/watch/video/159486

This web site could be useful:  https://snccdigital.org/category/people/

This ebook contain first hand accounts:

Risking Everything : A Freedom Summer Reader

Tips:

• Identify patterns and create a coherent narrative. Include quotes from people who lived through the era. 
• You will need to provide some historical context, but please don't just summarize what the Campaign was.  This paper is about the motivations of the participants.