Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- You Came Here to Die, Didn't You?: "Few know that there was a second freedom summer in 1965. The first Freedom Summer was run by a confederation of civil rights organizations, though SNCC took the lead. The organizations went their separate ways in 1965, dividing up the states so they didn't overlap or compete.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, best known as Dr. King's organization, brought between three and four hundred young people to six Southern states for a project called SCOPE — Southern Community Organization for Political Education. Expecting the Voting Rights Act to pass in June, its purpose was to get local blacks registered to vote."
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