List 3 ways student-activists / SNCC members challenged the status quo / power structure in Mississippi.

They were able to achieve very significant progress against segregation and discrimination in its various forms. Here is how.

Explanation:

1. They in conjunction with the SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference after a failed attempt by the former were able to strong-arm the federal government into enforcing policy changes to stop segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.

2. They were also involved in voter registration activities in McComb, Mississippi and also worked a desegregation campaign in Albany, Georgia. This campaign became known as the Albany Movement.

The representatives of the SNCC forged the Albany Movement was forged on the 17th day of November 1961. Also represented in the movement were members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Ministerial Alliance, the Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the Negro Voters League.

This movement via widespread campaigns became a voice against all kinds of discrimination and segregation.

3. They were able to throw their weight behind the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964 as a strategy to confront the legality of the all-white Democratic Party in the state.

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