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Introduction
 
Veterans Roll Call
    Add Your Name to the Roll Call
 Instructions and Guidelines
 Speakers List
 
In Memory
 
History & Timeline of the Southern Freedom Movement
 
The Movement
Voting Rights History — Two Centuries of Struggle
 Voting Rights — Are You Qualified to Vote?
Nonviolent Resistance
 Birmingham Segregation Laws
 Tributes to Women of the Freedom Movement
 Rock Hill & Charlotte Sit-ins,, 1960
 Freedom Rides, 1961
 SNCC Organizing Presence in Alabama: A Partial Timeline, 1961-67
 Got To Thinking... The Movement in Holmes Co, MS, 1963
 Freedom Now! — Birmingham, AL 1963
 March on Washington, 1963
 St. Augustine Movement, 1963-1964
 Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
 McComb Mississippi Incidents & Events — 1964
 Neshoba Murders Case — A Chronology
 Grenada Mississippi — Chronology of a Movement, 1966
 Pins of the Freedom Movement
 Tributes to and Memories of Jim Forman
 
Photo Album: Images of a Peoples' Movement
 Young People Lead the Way
 Off Campus — Into Movement
 Down to the Grassroots
 Into the Storm
 The Children's Crusade
 March on Washington
 Freedom Summer
 Selma, Lord, Selma
 March to Montgomery
 Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
 The Volunteers
 In the Circle of Trust
 Carry It On
 
Our Stories
 
Everybody Can Serve  —  Martin Luther King
  
Sandra AdickesHistory Lessons in Hattiesburg (MS)
Barbara Barnes AllenInterview (St. Augustine, FL)
Chude Pam Parker Allen Why I Am Going to Mississippi
Would You Marry One? (MS)  
Loneliness in the Circle of Trust (MS)
Watching the Iris Grow (MS)
Three Letters From a Freedom School Teacher (MS)
Randy Battle The Great Pool Jump... (Albany, GA)
Driving for Attorney C.B. King (GA)
Memories of Stokely Carmichael
An Education; A Memory of Stokely
Hunter Bear Interview (MS & NC)
A Magnolia Tale (MS)
Black-Belt Thunder (NC & SCEF)  
Charles Bonner & Betty Fikes  Interview (Selma, AL)
Joan Browning Albany Freedom Ride Letters and Chronology (GA)
Religion and Joining SNCC
Cathy CadeMy Family, the Movement, and Me (Albany, GA)  
George ConwayA Matter of Honor (St. Augustine, FL)
William "Meatball" DouthardI'll Never Forget Alabama Law (Gadsden, AL)  
Jo FreemanViewing Rosa Parks
Hardy FryeNarrative (SNCC, MS & AL)
Maria GitinLetter From Movement Boot Camp
Letter From Wilcox County, Alabama
Miriam (Cohen) Glickman Integration in the Deep South: Death Goes On — 1963
Vietnam War Protest, 1965
Heather GrayA Month of Infamy 38 Years Ago (MS)
Stephen GreenFreedom Rider Diary - 40 Years Later
Bruce Hartford Interview (CORE & SCLC, AL & MS)
Margaret Herring   Narrative (Lauren McSurely)
Don JelinekInterview (SNCC, AL & MS)
Jim KatesJune 1964 (MS)
Charles LeckRiding on the Spirit of New Orleans (MS)
Eric LernerSelma Interview (AL)
Peter de Lissovoy Albany GA in 1963 (Southwest GA)
"Outside Agitator" and Other Terms of the Times (GA)
A Confrontation (GA)
Remembering C. B. King's Campaign for Congress (GA)
William MandelExecution in Virginia, 1951
Sheila MichaelsHow I Became An Oral Historian
Bob MosesTestimony
Fran O'BrienFaith and Activism (MS)
Gregory OrrOn a Highway East of Selma, Alabama
Gwen Patton Insurgent Memories (Tuskegee, AL)
John Perdew & Randy Battle Events in Dawson and Americus, Georgia
Americus, GA: Sheriff Fred Chapell and "Slappy"
Wazir (Willie B.) Peacock Interview (SNCC, MS & AL)
Judy RichardsonInterview (SNCC, MD, GA, MS)
Ron Ridenour Freedom Summer Orientation (MS)
On the Road to Freedom (MS)
Personal Diary, Moss Point Mississippi
Dennis Roberts Stories of Southwest Georgia & C.B. King
Priscilla McLeod Robinson My Story (VA & AL)
Jimmy Rogers & Linda Dehnad   Interview (SNCC, AL)
Michael Simmons Disturbing the Peace
Ruby SalesInterview (SNCC, AL)
Jonathan Steele Summer of Hate (MS)
Rita WalkerMeeting the Freedom Workers (COFO, MS)
Hattie & James WhiteInterview (St. Augustine, FL)  
Gren WhitmanMississippi Summer 1964
Jean Wiley Interview (SNCC, AL)
     
List of Oral Histories collected by Shiela Michaels
Oral History Bibliography  Civil Rights Documentation Project
Southern Oral History Project Univerity North Carolina-Chapel Hill
 
Our Thoughts
 
Long Time Coming (Election of Obama)Wally Roberts2008
Activists and ActivismBruce Hartford2008
That Darned "Why did you..." QuestionBruce Hartford2008
Leadership: Freedom Movement vs New LeftBruce Hartford2007
SNCC, Black Power & Black Nationalism  Mike Miller2007
Veterans Statement, "Eyes on the Prize"[Movement Veterans]2005
Adopt A Racist Boor For MLK DayBenjamin Greenberg2005
Georgia's Fraudulent Anti-Fraud LegislationJulian Bond2005
Against DiscouragementHoward Zinn2005
Religion and the 2004 ElectionSales & Hartford2004
Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman 40th Memorial  [Many people]2004
A Black Man Fights the DraftMichael Simmons  2003
Say These Words With MeBob Moses & Donna Ladd  2003
Justice for Jamil (H. Rap Brown)[Movement Veterans]2002
"My Reflections of Years Gone By"Charles Person2001
Review of Walking With the WindMike Miller2000
Renewing the Beloved CommunityMike Miller2000
Lowndes County Election FraudGwen Patton1966
 
Your Thoughts
 
Discussions
 
The Importance of SNCC
The Black Panther Symbol
After the Movement
Selma & the March to Montgomery
Across the Racial Divide
Telling Our Stories
Jews, Religion, & the Movement
Women & Men in the Freedom Movement
The Mississippi Movement & the MFDP
Community Organizing
What Did Our Families Think of Our Going South?   
Local Folks and Civil Rights Workers
The Movement in Alabama
Discussion: Whites in SNCC, Email dialog.
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2005
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Documents
 
  Student Voice, SNCC monthly newsletter
  CORE-Lator, CORE monthly newsletter
  Southern Courier, Southern Freedom Movement weekly newspaper
  Life With Lyndon in the Great Society, Jack Minnis, SNCC
  The Movement Friends of SNCC paper (Farmworkers Union website) [PDF]

Freedom Movement Political Documents
1960An Appeal for Human Rights, Atlanta students. (See Atlanta Sit- ins for background)
1960  SNCC Founding Statement. (See Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Founded for background)
1960Bigger Than a Hamburger, Ella Baker
1960Sit-Ins: The Students Report (CORE Pamphlet)
1963Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King [PDF]
1963Stresses of the White Female Worker in CRM [PDF]
1963March on Washington — Documents (Speeches & organizing material)
1964Women in the Movement, SNCC Position Paper
1966SNCC Postion Paper: On Vietnam
1967Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King [PDF]
1967The Other America, Martin Luther King
1968I Have Been to the Mountain Top, Martin Luther King [PDF]
SNCC/COFO WATS Reports

Freedom Movement Reports and Organizing Materials
1960Alabama Map, showing Black-Belt counties and percentage Black population. Data from 1960 Census. [PDF]
1960Mississippi Map, showing Congressional districts and Black-white population statistics. [PDF]
1960Mississippi Map, showing Black-Belt counties. [PDF]
1964Mississippi Freedom Summer Map, showing the major projects. [PDF]
1961-62CORE Route 40 Campaign Flyer [PDF]. (See Desegregate Route 40 Project for background)
1963CORE Rules for Action. The CORE procedures for Direct Action campaigns that applied until CORE moved away from integration and non-violence in the mid to late-1960s. [PDF]
1963CORE Membership Card. (Yes, Senator McCarthy, CORE did have "card-carrying" members. And proud of it too.) [PDF]
1963   SNCC. Basic SNCC organizing brochure. Primarily used for recruiting at southern Black colleges and for fund-raising events in the north. [PDF]
1963-64This is CORE. Basic CORE recruitment and fundrasing flyer. Used nationwide, mainly by urban and campus CORE chapters. [PDF]
1963Danville Virginia. Sixteen-page SNCC pamphlet describing the bloody police repression of the Danville Movement. [PDF] [Large 3MB file. Once you download it, it's best to print it out for easier reading.]
1963March On Washington. Speeches, programs, and organizing materials from the march.
1963Freedom Ballot Registration Form. Used in Mississippi during the Freedom Ballot campaign (Oct-Nov) [PDF]
1963-65All About CORE. CORE information brochure. New CORE members received one of these to study as part of their new-member orientation. [PDF]
1964Mississippi: Subversion of the Right to Vote. Twenty-page SNCC pamphlet. [PDF]
1964Mississippi Summer Project. Freedom Summer recruitment and fundraising brochure. [PDF]
1964Information Sheet — Project Mississippi. Five-page Freedom Summer fact sheet prepared at Stanford University and distributed to West Coast students interested in participating in the project. [PDF]
1964Mississippi Freedom Project. A second Freedom Summer brochure mostly used for fundraising and explaining the project to supporters, press, and worried parents. [PDF]
1965Example Flyers From the Selma Voting Rights Campaign.
1964CORE Calendar of Coercion Aug 1963-Aug 1964. Pamphlet compiling atrocities and attacks reported by CORE Freedom Movement projects during one 12-month period. [PDF]
1964-68MCHR Manual for Volunteers. Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) manual for volunteer doctors, nurses, and other health professionals serving on the front lines of the Freedom Struggle.
1966Political Education Primer — Lowndes County Freedom Organization
1966 Demands of the Grenada Movement
Example Flyers From the Grenada Movement
Example staff reports from the Grenada MS Movement.
1967?ASCS Flyer #1 and ASCS Flyer #2. Organizing flyers for Agriculture Stabilization & Conservation Service (ASCS) elections. These were the crucial elections for the county officials who determined who got government cotton allotments.
  SNCC Document Collection. (Guide to the SNCC collection currently stored at the King Center in Atlanta.)

 
FAQ
 How and why did you become active in the Civil Rights Movement?
 What did you do during the Civil Rights movement?
 Was violence or repression ever directed against you personally?
 What did the Southern Freedom Movement mean to you?
 Did the Civil Rights Movement change race relations?
 Do you believe that there is still racism in the US?
 Did the civil rights movement have an impact on the whole of the US?
 What were the failures of the Civil Rights Movement?
 Did marches & sit-ins help or hurt the movement?
 Did the president do everything he could to better the situation?
 What are your thoughts on non-violence?
 What are your thoughts on non-violence?
 What are your thoughts on the Black Power movement?
 Thoughts on the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King?
 
Poetry
 

From the Freedom Movement

Poems by: Chude Pam Allen (Pam Parker)
Poems by: "Arkansas" ("Strider," Jim Benston)
Poems by: Nina Boal
Poems by: Julian Bond
Poems by: Joyce Brown (16)
Poems by: Charles Fager
Poems by: Jerry Farber
Poems by: Bruce Hartford
Poems by: Casey Hayden
Poems by: Steve McNichols
Poems by: Gregory Orr
Poems by: Bernice Johnson Reagon
Poems by: Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner
Poems by: Jane Stembridge
Poems by: Molly Lynn Watt
Poems by: Bob Zellner

About the Movement

Poems by: June Brindel
Poems by: June Jordan
Poems by: Naomi Long Madgett
Poems by: Dudley Randall (1914-2000)

The Forerunners

Poems by: Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Poems by: Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Poems by: Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Poems by: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Poems by: Claude McKay (1891-1948)
 
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