However before these organizations would allow the volunteers to go down to Mississippi and go after what they planned on accomplishing the volunteers were put through very intense and severe training to with stand any type of encounter with the people of Mississippi that did not approve of what they set out to do. For example the training consisted of learning how to take on a beating from a mob of people without retaliating to the mob and preparing them to persecuted, beaten or even brutally killed. These volunteers had to be careful from all the dangers in the state of Mississippi because dangers to them came from all angles including the local white population, the KKK, and local/state
However before these organizations would allow the volunteers to go down to Mississippi and go after what they planned on accomplishing the volunteers were put through very intense and severe training to with stand any type of encounter with the people of Mississippi that did not approve of what they set out to do. For example the training consisted of learning how to take on a beating from a mob of people without retaliating to the mob and preparing them to persecuted, beaten or even brutally killed. These volunteers had to be careful from all the dangers in the state of Mississippi because dangers to them came from all angles including the local white population, the KKK, and local/state