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Documents of the Civil Rights Movement

Freedom Movement Publications

  Student Voice, SNCC Newsletters
  CORE-Lator, CORE Newsletters
  Southern Courier, Movement newspapers
  Life With Lyndon in the Great Society, Jack Minnis, SNCC

Freedom Movement 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]
1968I Have Been to the Mountain Top, Martin Luther King [PDF]

Freedom Movement Organizing Materials

1960Alabama Map, showing Black-Belt counties and percentage Black population. Data from 1960 Census. [PDF]
1960Mississippi Map, showing Black-Belt counties. [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]
1964-68Manual 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.)


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