Mississippi was dangerous because its society was strictly segregated, and much of the violence directed at African Americans organized by the Ku Klux Klan.
Explanation:
After the Civil War, the Southern states able to introduce Jim Crow Laws, which segregated the African Americans from the whites. Since the beginning of 1963, African Americans crushed by violence and other forms of bullying. Mississipi was taken as the location for the Freedom Summer project due to its low levels of African American voter enrollment. Freedom Summer was a voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered black voters in Mississippi in 1964.
