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Documents of the Southern Freedom Movement 1951-1968
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Freedom Movement Publications
Freedom Movement Political & Strategy Documents   
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Internal Organizational Documents
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 COFO/MFDP Documents
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 NAACP Documents
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  See also:
      History & Timeline: 1951-1968
      The Southern Freedom Movement
      Letters & Reports From the Field
      Our Stories

** Freedom Movement Publications **

  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 & Strategy Documents **

1960A Call for Immediate Mass Action!, A. Phillip Randolph
1960An Appeal for Human Rights, Atlanta students. (See Atlanta Sit- ins for background)
1960  SNCC Founding Statement.
1960Bigger Than a Hamburger, Ella Baker
1960Sit-Ins: The Students Report (CORE Pamphlet)
1963Birmingham Manifesto, ACMHR
1963Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King
1963March on Washington — Documents (Speeches & organizing material)
1963I Have a Dream speech, Martin Luther King
1964Freedom Summer Orientation Briefing, Dr. Vincent Harding
1964Platform: Mississippi Freedom School Convention, Student Delegates
1964Fannie Lou Hamer's Testimony at Democratic Convention
1964Women in the Movement, SNCC Position Paper
1964I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired, Fannie Lou Hamer.
1965Looking Forward: From Protest to Politics, Bayard Rustin. [PDF]
1965Background Paper: White House Planning Conference, Bayard Rustin. [PDF]
1965Sex and Caste, by Casey Hayden & Mary King, as published in Liberation [PDF]
1966Stresses of the White Female Worker in CRM, Dr. Alvin Poussaint [PDF]
1966?What Would it Profit a Man to Have the Vote and Not be Able to Control it?, Courtland Cox
1966SNCC Postion Paper: On Vietnam
1966The Basis of Black Power, SNCC position paper, Spring 1966.
1967SNCC Statement on Apartheid, Racial Discrimination, & Colonialism [PDF]
1967Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King
1967The Other America, Martin Luther King
1967Who Are the Real Outlaws?, H. Rap Brown
1967Statement of James Forman to UN General Assembly, Nov. 17 [PDF]
1968I Have Been to the Mountain Top, Martin Luther King
1968Program: Martin Luther King Funeral, [PDF]

** Freedom Movement Organizing Materials From Groups **
     (See Letters & Reports From the Field for personally-signed memos and position papers.)

1955First Leaflet Calling for Montgomery Bus Boycott, (Montgomery Womens Political Council)
1956The Montgomery Story (Comic Book) (Fellowship of Reconciliation)
1960Heed Their Rising Voices, The New York Times advertisment which led to the New York Times v Sullivan case that re-defined the 1st Amendment.
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 nonviolence 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 from 1963. Primarily used for recruiting at southern Black colleges and for fund-raising events in the north. [PDF]
1963This is CORE. Basic CORE recruitment and fundrasing flyer. Used nationwide, 1963-1965, 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.
1963Halt Justice Department Persecution. SNCC petition distributed at March on Washington to oppose the Federal "Jury Tampering" Frameup in Albany GA. [PDF]
1963All About CORE. CORE information brochure, 1963-1965. New CORE members received one of these to study as part of their new-member orientation. [PDF]
1963-66COFO/MFDP Organizing Documents, (Multiple documents).
1964Workshops in Nonviolence — Why? CORE Training scenarios in practical nonviolence. By Martin Oppenheimer. Five pages. [PDF]
1964COFO: What It Is, What It Does, Five-page pamphlet. [PDF]
1964Mississippi: Subversion of the Right to Vote. 20-page SNCC pamphlet. [PDF]
1964Genocide in Mississippi, 12-page SNCC pamphlet. [PDF]
1964Freedom Summer Documents, (Multiple Documents).
1964Freedom School Documents (Multiple Documents).
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]
1964-65  MFDP Mississippi Congressional Challenge, (Multiple documents).
1964-67Agriculture Stabilization & Conservation Service (ASCS) Elections, (Multiple Documents).
1964-68 Benton County Freedom Train, (Local newsletters)
1964-68Southern Student Organizing Committee, (Multiple documents).
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.
1965CORE ~ Louisiana in Brief. 14-page report/analysis. [PDF]
1965SNCC ~ The General Condition of the Alabama Negro. 28-page report/analysis. [PDF]
1965Example Flyers From the Selma Voting Rights Campaign.
1965Special Report, Selma Voting Rights. SNCC. [PDF]
1965Who is Responsible for Alabama Police Brutality, SNCC Report. [PDF]
1965Gulfport MS, Liberty Bell, (Local newsletter) [Large PDF]
1965Notes on Rural Organizing, Charles McLaurin (SNCC)
1965Example SNCC County Research, (Greene Co. AL) [PDF]
1965SCLC/SCOPE Project, (Multiple Documents).
1965Americus and Baker County, (GA, SNCC Research) [PDF]
1965Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference) [PDF]
1965How the Civil Rights is Being Subverted in Mississippi, SNCC Research. [PDF]
1965?Security Handbook, Mississippi.
1966Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) Political Education Primer
1966Negroes in American History: Freedom Primer (Illustrated), Revised 2nd Ed. SNCC [Large PDF]
1966The Story of SNCC. 16-page Fund-raising brochure and organizing pamphlet from the later part of 1966. [PDF]
1966 Documents of the Grenada MS Movement, (Multiple Documents).

** Freedom Movement Maps **

 Alabama Map, showing Black-Belt counties and percentage Black population. Data from 1960 Census. [PDF]
 Mississippi Map, showing Congressional districts and Black-white population statistics. [PDF]
 Mississippi Map, showing Black Belt counties. [PDF]
 Alabama map, showing Black Belt counties. [PDF]
 Map of SNCC Projects (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference) [PDF]
 Mississippi Freedom Summer Map, showing the major projects. [PDF]

** SNCC/COFO WATS Reports **

** Freedom Movement Reports & Minutes**

1960Decisions Adopted, SNCC Conference, October 1960 [PDF]
1963SNCC Field Reports (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference) [PDF]
1963Six Month Report, SNCC Chairmanm, John Lewis, July-Dec. [PDF]
1963Report: White Southern Student Project, Sam Shirah. [PDF]
1963Southwest Georgia Project Report/Proposals, Dec 1963. Charles Sherrod
1963SNCC Executive Commitee Minutes, December. [Large PDF]
1964SNCC Coodinating Committee Roster, March. [PDF]
1964SNCC Executive Committee Minutes. April. [Large PDF]
1964SNCC Executive Commitee Minutes, May. [PDF]
1964Example COFO Project Report (Marks, MS.) [PDF]
1964SNCC Staff Retreat Minutes, November (Summary). [PDF]
1965The School Boycott, Moultrie, GA, Herman Kitchen
1965SNCC: Notes to the Northern Staff, (Feb. 1, 1965) [PDF]
1965SNCC Executive Committee Minutes, April. [Large PDF]
1965SNCC Alabama Staff Meeting Minutes, April. [Large PDF]
1965Gulfport, MS. Report & Analysis, Sam Walker [PDF]
1965Results of SCLC's SCOPE Project, Hosea Williams (SCLC). [PDF]
1965New Orleans Community Organizers — Report, Matt Suarez. [PDF]

** Internal Organizational Documents **

1960Call to SNCC Founding Conference [PDF]
1963SNCC Constitution, as revised April, 1963. [PDF]
1964SNCC Pay Stub & Payroll Note
1964Freedom Summer Documents, (Multiple Documents).
1964Freedom School Documents (Multiple Documents).
1964COFO Identification Papers (You have ze papers, yes?)
1964COFO Memorandum, Dec. 11. Re changes & rumors. [PDF]
1964?Memo From John Lewis to SNCC Staff, December, 1964? [PDF]
1964-68Southern Student Organizing Committee, (Multiple documents).
1965What is the SNCC Research Department, February. [PDF]
1965O-J-T Programs For Students, SNCC Campus Travelers. [PDF]
1965SCLC/SCOPE Project, (Multiple Documents).
1965?Security Handbook, Mississippi.
1966 Documents of the Grenada MS Movement, (Multiple Documents).

** Government Reports & Background Information **

Justice: Equal Justice Under the Law, 1961. (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) [PDF]
Voting, 1961. (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) [PDF]
Public Schools Southern States, 1962. (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) [PDF]
Civil Rights, 1963. (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) [PDF]
Report on Mississippi, 1963. (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) [PDF]
Voting in Mississippi, 1965. (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) [PDF]
New Orleans Schools Crises, (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) [PDF]
Racial Desegregation of Public Accomodations (National Park Service retrospective) [PDF]
Racial Voting Rights (National Park Service retrospective) [PDF]

** Collections **

  SNCC Document Collection. Guide to the SNCC collection currently stored at the King Center in Atlanta.
  James Forman Papers. Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress. [PDF]

** COFO/MFDP Documents **

1963  Freedom Ballot Registration Form (Mississippi) [PDF]
1963I Don't Mind My Light Shining, Fannie Lou Hamer.
1964MFDP Voter Registration Report. Derived from court cases and Federal reports. [PDF]
1964COFO: What It Is, What It Does, Five-page pamphlet. [PDF]
1964Example COFO Project Report (Marks, MS., February) [PDF]
1964Freedom Summer Orientation Briefing, Dr. Vincent Harding
1964Platform: Mississippi Freedom School Convention, Student Delegates
1964Fannie Lou Hamer's Testimony at Democratic Convention
1964MFDP Voter Registration Report. From court cases & Federal reports. [PDF]
1964MS Freedom Primer #2 The Freedom Vote & the Right to Vote. [PDF]
MS Freedom Primer #3 The Right to Vote & the Congressional Challenge. [PDF]
1964See also Freedom Summer Documents, (Multiple Documents).
1964 Challenge of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (white-paper) [PDF]
1964I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired, Fannie Lou Hamer.
1964COFO Identification Papers
1964COFO Memorandum, Dec. 11. Re changes & rumors. [PDF]
1964-65  MFDP Mississippi Congressional Challenge, (Multiple Documents).
1964-68  Benton County, MS. Freedom Train, (Local newsletter) [PDF]
1965Gulfport MS, Liberty Bell, (Local newsletter) [Large PDF]
1965Gulfport, MS. Report & Analysis, Sam Walker [PDF]
1965?Security Handbook, Mississippi.

** CORE Documents **

  CORE-Lator, CORE monthly newsletter
1961-62CORE Route 40 Campaign Flyer [PDF].
1963-65All About CORE. CORE information brochure. [PDF]
1963CORE Rules for Action. The CORE procedures for Direct Action campaigns. [PDF]
1963-64This is CORE. Basic CORE recruitment and fundrasing flyer. [PDF]
1963CORE Membership Card. [PDF]
1964Workshops in Nonviolence — Why? CORE training in practical nonviolence. [PDF]
1965CORE ~ Louisiana in Brief. 14-page report/analysis. [PDF]
1965New Orleans Community Organizers — Report, Matt Suarez. [PDF]

** NAACP Documents **

** SCLC Documents **

1956  The Montgomery Story (Comic Book) (Fellowship of Reconciliation)
1960Heed Their Rising Voices, New York Times advertisment.
1963Birmingham Manifesto, ACMHR
1963Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King
1963I Have a Dream speech, Martin Luther King
1965SCLC/SCOPE Project, (Multiple Documents).
1967Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King
1967The Other America, Martin Luther King
1968I Have Been to the Mountain Top, Martin Luther King
1966Documents of the Grenada MS Movement
1968Program: Martin Luther King Funeral, [PDF]

** SNCC Documents **

  Student Voice, SNCC monthly newsletter
  Life With Lyndon in the Great Society, Jack Minnis, SNCC
  The Movement Friends of SNCC paper (Farmworkers Union website) [PDF]
 Map of SNCC Projects (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference) [PDF]
1960Call to SNCC Founding Conference [PDF]
1960  SNCC Founding Statement.
1960Bigger Than a Hamburger, Ella Baker
1960Decisions Adopted, SNCC Conference, October [PDF]
1963SNCC Constitution, as revised April. [PDF]
1963   SNCC. Basic SNCC organizing brochure from 1963. [PDF]
1963Danville Virginia (Pamphlet) [PDF]
1963SNCC Field Reports (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference) [PDF]
1963Letter from Fannie Lou Hamer (To SNCC supporters in the North) [PDF]
1963Six Month Report, SNCC Chairmanm, John Lewis, July-Dec. [PDF]
1963Report: White Southern Student Project, Sam Shirah. [PDF]
1964SNCC Pay Stub & Hire Note
1963SNCC Executive Commitee Minutes, December. [Large PDF]
1964SNCC Coodinating Committee Roster, March. [PDF]
1964SNCC Executive Committee Minutes. April. [PDF]
1964SNCC Executive Commitee Minutes, May. [PDF]
1964Mississippi: Subversion of the Right to Vote. 20-page SNCC pamphlet. [PDF]
1964Genocide in Mississippi, 12-page SNCC pamphlet. [PDF]
1964SNCC Staff Retreat Minutes, November (Summary). [PDF]
1964Women in the Movement, SNCC Position Paper
1964?Memo From John Lewis to SNCC Staff, December, 1964? [PDF]
1965SNCC ~ The General Condition of the Alabama Negro. 28-page report/analysis. [PDF]
1965Special Report, Selma Voting Rights. SNCC. [PDF]
1965Who is Responsible for Alabama Police Brutality, SNCC Report. [PDF]
1965Notes to the Northern Staff, (Feb. 1) [PDF]
1965What is the SNCC Research Department, February. [PDF]
1965O-J-T Programs For Students, SNCC Campus Travelers. [PDF]
1965Example SNCC County Research, (Greene Co. AL) [PDF]
1965SNCC Executive Committee Minutes, April. [Large PDF]
1965SNCC Alabama Staff Meeting Minutes, April. [Large PDF]
1965Americus and Baker County, (GA, SNCC Research) [PDF]
1965How the Civil Rights is Being Subverted in Mississippi, SNCC Research. [PDF]
1965Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference) [PDF]
1966?  What Would it Profit a Man to Have the Vote and Not be Able to Control it?, Courtland Cox
1966Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) Political Education Primer
1966SNCC Postion Paper: On Vietnam
1966The Basis of Black Power, SNCC position paper
1966Negroes in American History: Freedom Primer [Large PDF]
1966The Story of SNCC. Fund-raising brochure from later 1966. [PDF]
1967SNCC Statement on Apartheid, Racial Discrimination, & Colonialism [PDF]
1967Statement of James Forman to UN General Assembly, Nov. 17 [PDF]
  
 SNCC Document Collection. Guide to the SNCC collection currently stored at the King Center in Atlanta.
 James Forman Papers. Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress. [PDF]

** SSOC Documents **

1965SSOC Miscellaneous Documents. [PDF]
1967Memo to SSOC (on organizing whites), Anne Braden. [PDF]

** Documents From Other Organizations & Individuals **

 Southern Courier, Southern Freedom Movement weekly newspaper
1955First Leaflet Calling for Montgomery Bus Boycott, (Womens Political Council)
1956The Montgomery Story (Comic Book) (Fellowship of Reconciliation)
1960A Call for Immediate Mass Action!, A. Phillip Randolph
1963March on Washington (Speeches & organizing materials, multiple organizations)
1964-67  ASCS Elections, (Multiple Documents & Organizations).
1964-68MCHR Manual for Volunteers. Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR)
1965The School Boycott, Moultrie, GA, Herman Kitchen
1965Looking Forward: From Protest to Politics, Bayard Rustin. [PDF]
1965Background Paper: White House Planning Conference, Bayard Rustin. [PDF]
1966Stresses of the White Female Worker in CRM, Dr. Alvin Poussaint [PDF]


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