Articles & Speeches
by Civil Rights Movement Veterans
Summer Community Organization and Political Education
(SCOPE) Project, 1965-66

In the summer of 1965, hundreds of northern volunteers — mostly though not entirely white — join southern Blacks to work on SCLC's Summer Community Organization & Political Education project. Working in six southern states, they register voters and help local leaders build Black-led community organizations. Some SCOPE project activity continued on into 1966. Though warned of the dangers they would face they came anyway to counties in Virginia, North & South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.

From CRMVets History & Timeline

SCOPE Summer Project

SCOPE Articles by Freedom Movement Veterans

Remembrances of the SCOPE Project

Peter Buck:	Journal of a SCOPE Volunteer Summer, 1965
Larry Scott Butler:	Short History Freedom Movement in Barbour County, AL
Maria Gitin:	Story From Wilcox County, AL Letter From Wilcox County, AL
Lynn Goldberg:	Diary of a Young Civil Rights Worker
Bruce Hartford:	SCOPE — Crenshaw County Alabama Rural Alabama Sit-in Dave's Driving Lesson Showdown in Brantley
Lanny Kaufer:	UCSB SCOPE Project Summer, 1965-66: Sussex County, VA
Sherie Labedis:	Fireball in the Night
Vincent K. Pollard:	Veterans Roll Call Statement
Neil Reichline:	Veterans Roll Call Statement
Richard Stephenson:	Veterans Roll Call Statement
If you participated in the SCOPE project, please send us your story for posting here. You can email it to: webmaster@crmvet.org.

For More Information:

See also SCLC's SCOPE Project Documents

See also Letters & Field Reports from SCOPE Projects

See also Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & SCOPE Project for books.

See also SCLC & SCOPE Summer Project for web links.

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