Our Thoughts

This section is where Movement veterans publish retrospectives, analyses, and opinions related to the Freedom Movement and all that came after. It is open to any veteran of the Southern Freedom Movement during the years 1951-1968 who is listed in the Veterans Roll Call. (See The Southern Freedom Movement for articles written by Movement veterans at the time the Movement was taking place.)

See also:

History & Timeline: 1951-1968 — Descriptions of Movement events.
The Southern Freedom Movement — Articles by Movement veterans written at the time.
Letters & Reports From the Field — By Movement veterans written at the time
Discussions — Transcripts of later group discussions by Movement veterans.
Our Stories — Memories, narratives & interviews of Movement veterans.
Documents — Movement publications, reports, organizing materials, strategy papers, etc.

Submissions Policy

 

Food for Thought	Maria Gitin	2013
Voting Rights Act Friend of the Court Brief	Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement	2013
The Roots of Poverty	Bruce Hartford	2013
When MLK Thrilled L.A. — and Me	Ellen Broms	2013
Our Week with Rosa Parks...	Daphne Muse	2013
On Being a Militant and Radical Organizer...	Hunter Gray	2012
Lawrence Guyot's Thoughts	Lawrence Guyot	2012
Political Animals Likely to Confuse History of the CRM	Diane Nash	2012
Thoughts on Port Huron	Bob Zellner	2012
Quilt Story: Black Rural Women, White Urban Entrepreneurs ...	Linda Beckman	2012
The Dark and Poor Must Join OWS!	Curtis Muhammad	2011
Another Account of the Second Freedom Summer	Jo Freeman	2011
Schools to Prison Pipeline, Today's Civil Rights Issue	Connie Curry	2011
Fred Shuttlesworth: Civil Rights Lion	Charlie Cobb	2011
Doing the Right Thing	Robert & Helen Singleton	2011
Thoughts on "The Help" Book & Movie	[Movement veterans]	2011
You Came Here to Die, Didn't You?	Jo Freeman	2011
My Country, My Mother, and Me	Helen Singleton	2011
The People's Revolution Does Not Seek to Lead Nations	Curtis Muhammad	2011
I Owe a Debt of Gratitude to the Civil Rights Movement	Daphne Muse	2010
Clyde Kennard	Ron Hollander	2010
Statement on Mississippi Freedom Ride 50th Anniversary	[Group]	2010
SNCC at 50	Charlie Cobb	2010
In the Attics of My Mind	Casey Hayden	2010
SNCC & Today's Education Struggle	Bruce Hartford	2010
Review of The Great Pool Jump: & Other Stories ...	Stephen Saltonstall	2010
SNCC, Fifty Years Later	Marian Wright Edelman	2010
SNCC's Legacy	Curtis Muhammad	2010
Letter to Young Radicals	Curtis Muhammad	2010
Generational Narrative by a Black Woman on Senator Kennedy	Ruby Sales	2009
Long Time Coming (Election of Obama)	Wally Roberts	2008
21 Months (Election of Obama)	Helen Singleton	2008
Activists and Activism	Bruce Hartford	2008
That Darned "Why did you..." Question	Bruce Hartford	2008
"Atlantic City Revisited" — Mondale & "The Movement"	Mike Miller	2008
The Importance of SNCC (A Discussion)	[Movement Veterans]	2008
Leadership: Freedom Movement vs New Left	Bruce Hartford	2007
SNCC, Black Power & Black Nationalism	Mike Miller	2007
Why Struggle? Why Care?	Chude Allen	2005
The FBI's Mississippi Myopia	Ron Carver	2005
Veterans Statement, "Eyes on the Prize"	[Movement Veterans]	2005
Adopt A Racist Boor For MLK Day	Benjamin Greenberg	2005
Georgia's Fraudulent Anti-Fraud Legislation	Julian Bond	2005
Against Discouragement	Howard Zinn	2005
Religion and the 2004 Election	Sales & Hartford	2004
Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman 40th Memorial	[Many people]	2004
A Black Man Fights the Draft	Michael Simmons	2003
Say These Words With Me	Bob Moses & Donna Ladd	2003
Justice for Jamil (H. Rap Brown)	[Movement Veterans]	2002
"My Reflections of Years Gone By"	Charles Person	2001
Review of Walking With the Wind	Mike Miller	2000
Renewing the Beloved Community	Mike Miller	2000
Mississippi Stories I & II	Bell Gale Chivigny	1994
What the Civil Rights Movement Proved	Howard Zinn	1994
Mississippi Smoldering	Jim Kates	1988

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