[This section contains retrospectives, analyses, and opinions related to the Freedom Movement and all that came after by Movement veterans. It is open to any veteran of the Southern Freedom Movement during the years 1951-1968 who is listed in the Veterans Roll Call. Submissions Policy]See The Southern Freedom Movement for articles written by Movement veterans at the time the Movement was taking place.
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1990s, 1980s, 1970s & earlier
2017
The Cluster Bomb of 110 Trump Axioms | Timothy Jenkins |
John Dewey and Citizen Politics | Harry Boyte |
Three Voices on Horror, Defiance and Love | Allen, Bridgeforth & Hartford |
This Button Was My Badge | Stuart Ewen |
Honoring Their Departure | Daphne Muse |
The Limits of "Clicktivism" | Bruce Hartford |
Citizens as Co-Creators of a Democratic Way of Life | Harry Boyte |
2016 Election: Thoughts & Comments by Freedom Movement Veterans
SNCC Legacy Project: | Statement on the 2016 Presidential Election. | |
Heather Booth: | Terrifying result. Traumatic time. | |
Bruce Hartford: | A Note From the Wilderness. | |
Julius Lester: | We Shall Overcome. | |
Mike Miller: | Quick Thoughts on the Trump Victory. | |
Ron Ridenour: | USA Elections: A Revolutionary View. | |
Eugene Turitz: | Some Thoughts. |
2016
A Spirit of Power | Harry Boyte |
St. Matthews, SC and Fifty-one Years | Lynn Goldsmith Goldberg |
To Our Brothers and Sisters of #BlackLivesMatter Movement | SNCC Legacy Project & many Movement veterans |
Testimony to the Democratic Platform Committee on Voting as a Constitution Right | Robert (Bob) Moses, SLP, SNCC |
Thoughts on Freedom Songs | Penny Patch |
Bernie Sanders Photographs | Danny Lyon |
Bernie Sanders | Muriel Tillinghast |
Five Myths About Reconstruction | Jim Loewen |
Are you thinking of Writing Your Civil Rights Memoir? | Maria Gitin |
In a Season of Rage, Populist Lessons From The Movement | Harry Boyte |
Vernon F. Dahmer: Civil Rights Martyr and American Hero | Joyce Ladner |
Howard Zinn: Remembered and Missed | Annette Jones White |
Laudato Si', Civic Studies, and the Future of Democracy, ... | Harry Boyte |
2015
2014
We the People (Freedom Summer 50th Commemoration) | Bob Moses | ||||||||||||||||
Where Do We Go From Here? | SNCC Legacy Project (re police shootings) | ||||||||||||||||
The Real News Network Interviews | Bob Moses | ||||||||||||||||
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What Did You Learn in School Today? | Mark Levy | ||||||||||||||||
My Parents Said Yes! | Chude Allen | ||||||||||||||||
Letter to the Family of Charles Sherrod | Courtland Cox | ||||||||||||||||
Getting Past the Grand Jury | SNCC Legacy Project | ||||||||||||||||
Changing the Culture of Blue-Bigotry | Bruce Hartford | ||||||||||||||||
Reading "Ferguson" in Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust | Peter de Lissovoy | ||||||||||||||||
Reflections from Bob Moses ... On the Passing of John Doar | Bob Moses | ||||||||||||||||
Wilcox Churches: Sanctuaries & Action Centers | Maria Gitin | ||||||||||||||||
The Meaning of "Radical" | Bruce Hartford | ||||||||||||||||
As Mississippi Moves on, a New Struggle Arises | Ron Carver | ||||||||||||||||
Fannie Lou Hamer & the Democratic Party | Marsha Rose Joyner | ||||||||||||||||
Mississippi Movement Set Example for Female Leaders | Joyce Ladner | ||||||||||||||||
The Missing Word | Bruce Hartford | ||||||||||||||||
The Mississippi Summer Project 50th Anniversary Notes ... | Mike Miller | ||||||||||||||||
Why I Am Proud of the 1964 Civil Rights Act | Thomas Armstrong | ||||||||||||||||
Address to Freedom Summer 50th Commemoration | Julian Bond | ||||||||||||||||
In the Mississippi River: Heroes and Sheroes: | Judy Richardson | ||||||||||||||||
An Epitaph That Keeps Giving | Tim Jenkins | ||||||||||||||||
Union Organizing: Lessons From SNCC Work | Larry Rubin | ||||||||||||||||
Remembering John Perdew (1942-2014) | Sam Mahone | ||||||||||||||||
Wiping Away the Tears | Heather Gray | ||||||||||||||||
The MFDP: 50 years Later a Time for Evaluation | Mike Miller | ||||||||||||||||
Courage Was the Key | Bruce Hartford | ||||||||||||||||
The Value of Nonviolence Comes First | Ivanhoe Donaldson | ||||||||||||||||
Joseph Rauh & the MFDP's Democratic Convention Challenge | Mike Miller |
2013
My Homage to Mandela's Life | L. Zapata |
Thoughts on the Passing of Nelson Mandela | Hunter Bear |
African American Women and Jewish Women ... | Yvonne Hilton |
Harassment Didn't Stop Civil Rights Work | Corinne Barnwell |
A Memory from ... when Viola Liuzzo Was Murdered | Peter de Lissovoy |
Memories of the March | Fatima Cortez |
Aug. 28, 1963 Was a Day of Joy, Anger and Hope | Joyce Ladner |
Homily for the Jonathan Daniel Pilgrimage | Gloria House |
Reaction to Supreme Court Overturning VRA | Maria Gitin |
Supporting SNCC | Neal Hurwitz |
Leo Branton: A Sterling Brown Kind of Strong Man | Daphne Muse |
Fifty Years: Remembering Medgar Evers | Hunter Bear |
Food for Thought | Maria Gitin |
Voting Rights Act: Friend of the Court Brief | VMCRM |
The Roots of Poverty | Bruce Hartford |
When MLK Thrilled L.A. — and Me | Ellen Broms |
Our Week with Rosa Parks... | Daphne Muse |
2012
On Being a Militant and Radical Organizer... | Hunter Gray |
Living With Others: Challenges and Promises | Bob Zellner |
Lawrence Guyot's Thoughts | Lawrence Guyot |
Political Animals Likely to Confuse History of the CRM | Diane Nash |
Thoughts on Port Huron | Bob Zellner |
Quilt Story: Black Rural Women, White Urban ... | Linda Beckman |
2011
The Intolerable Burden | Connie Curry | |||||||||||||||
The Dark and Poor Must Join OWS! | Curtis Muhammad | |||||||||||||||
Another Account of the Second Freedom Summer | Jo Freeman | |||||||||||||||
Schools to Prison Pipeline, Today's Civil Rights Issue | Connie Curry | |||||||||||||||
Fred Shuttlesworth: Civil Rights Lion | Charlie Cobb | |||||||||||||||
Doing the Right Thing | Robert & Helen Singleton | |||||||||||||||
You Came Here to Die, Didn't You? | Jo Freeman | |||||||||||||||
My Country, My Mother, and Me | Helen Singleton | |||||||||||||||
The People's Revolution Does Not Seek to Lead Nations | Curtis Muhammad | |||||||||||||||
Thoughts on The Help Book & Movie
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2010
SNCC Truth
Telling Time: People of the Day Before Yesterday Reach Out to People of the Day After Tomorrow | Tim Jenkins |
Might you know where I can find a rehab center for my country? | Daphne Muse |
Freedom is not Free: The Meridian Movement of the Mid-60s | Smith & Morse |
Learning from the Long Civil Rights Movement's First Generation | Virginia Durr, Sue Thrasher |
I Owe a Debt of Gratitude to the Civil Rights Movement | Daphne Muse |
Clyde Kennard | Ron Hollander |
Statement on Mississippi Freedom Ride 50th ... | [Group] |
SNCC at 50 | Charlie Cobb |
In the Attics of My Mind | Casey Hayden |
SNCC & Today's Education Struggle | Bruce Hartford |
Review of The Great Pool Jump: & Other Stories ... SW Georgia | Stephen Saltonstall |
SNCC, Fifty Years Later | Marian Wright Edelman |
SNCC's Legacy | Curtis Muhammad |
Letter to Young Radicals | Curtis Muhammad |
2009
Generational Narrative by a Black Woman on ... Senator Edward Kennedy | Ruby Sales |
2008
The Legacy of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Raising Hell in the South | Heather Gray |
Long Time Coming (Election of Obama) | Wally Roberts |
21 Months (Election of Obama) | Helen Singleton |
Activists and Activism | Bruce Hartford |
That Darned "Why did you..." Question | Bruce Hartford |
"Atlantic City Revisited" — Mondale & "The Movement" | Mike Miller |
The Importance of SNCC (A Discussion) | [Freedom Movement Veterans] |
2007
Reclaiming the Second Reconstruction | Jack O'Dell |
Leadership: Freedom Movement vs New Left | Bruce Hartford |
SNCC, Black Power & Black Nationalism | Mike Miller |
Constitutional People, U.S. Senate testimony | Bob Moses |
2006
2005
Hurricane Katrina (Multiple pieces) | [Freedom Movement Veterans] |
Democracy Charter | Jack O'Dell |
Why Struggle? Why Care? | Chude Allen |
The FBI's Mississippi Myopia | Ron Carver |
Veterans Statement, "Eyes on the Prize" | [Freedom Movement Veterans] |
Adopt A Racist Boor For MLK Day | Benjamin Greenberg |
Georgia's Fraudulent Anti-Fraud Legislation | Julian Bond |
Against Discouragement | Howard Zinn |
In Memory of Dr. King — A Winter Soldier | Bruce Hartford |
2004
Bona Fide Community Organizing: Core Dimensions | Hunter Bear |
Religion and the 2004 Election | Sales & Hartford |
Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman 40th Memorial Donna Ladd: Jackson Free Press: I Felt the Earth Move Jim Benston: Letter from "Arkansas" (AKA "Strider") Ira Grupper:The 40th Neshoba Memorial David Kendall:Statement of David Kendall David Kotz:Statement of David Kotz Wallace Roberts: Highways to Nowhere Alan Schiffmann:Statement of Alan Schiffmann Andrew Sheldon: Statement of Andrew Sheldon Ira Grupper: Problems With the 40th Neshoba Memorial Jared Story: Misrepresentation and Mischaracterization |
2003
A Black Man Fights the Draft | Michael Simmons |
Say These Words With Me | Moses & Ladd |
2002
Justice for Jamil (H. Rap Brown) | [Freedom Movement Veterans] |
2001
My Reflections of Years Gone By | Charles Person |
2000
Conflicting Memories of the ... Albany Movement | Joan Browning |
Review of Walking With the Wind | Mike Miller |
Renewing the Beloved Community (Walking Wounded project) | Mike Miller |
1990s
What the Civil Rights Movement Proved | Howard Zinn, 1994 |
On Time in Mississippi, 1964-1994 | Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, 1994 |
Beloved Community, Mississippi Revisited | Susan Moon, 1994 |
Mississippi Stories I & II | Bell Gale Chivigny, 1994 |
Mississippi Movement Memories | Mike Miller, 1991 |
1980s
A Pebble Thrown into the Pond | Glenn Smiley, 1989 |
Those Who Were Not
There: the Cold War Against the Civil Rights Movement | Anne Braden, 1989 |
Mississippi Burning | Judy Richardson, 1989 |
Mississippi Smoldering | Jim Kates, 1988 |
Letter to the Editor (re Mississippi Burning movie) | Carol Hanisch, 1989 |
SNCC: How They Stood | Martha Prescod, 1988 |
1970s
Address to Ella Baker 75th Birthday Celebration | Bob Moses, 1978 |
Some Thoughts About Music | Annette Jones White (1962) |
See also:
History & Timeline: 1951-1968 — Descriptions of Movement events. Our Words — Articles & speeches by Movement veterans written at the time. Letters & Reports From the Field — By Movement veterans. Documents — Movement publications, reports, materials, strategy, etc. Photo Album — Movement photos, posters, etc. Our Stories — Memories, narratives & interviews of Movement veterans. Our Thoughts — Analyses and commentaries by Movement veterans. Discussions — Transcripts of group discussions by veterans.
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