This section contains memos and field reports to headquarters, letters written
to family and friends, and letters for publication & circulation, by
freedom workers in the field during 1951-1968. See also
Reports, Minutes & Plans for
organizational reports.
|
1955 | |
Workshop Notes ~
Highlander Center, 7/55 |
Rosa Parks, NAACP |
|
1956 | |
Impressions of the Montgomery Bus
Boycott, 3/56 |
Fred Halstead |
Letter to
Thurgood Marshall re Attack on NACCP, 6/4/56 |
Mobile NAACP |
Letter to Lyman
Beecher Stowe (MS) 10/56 |
Dr. T.R.M. Howard (RCNL) |
|
1957 | |
Letter to Roy
Wilkins re Little Rock Nine, 12/17/57 |
Daisy Bates, NAACP |
|
1958 | |
|
1959 | |
Report on the Youth
March for Integrated Schools, (DC) 6/25/59 |
Bayard Rustin, In Friendship. |
Memo to SCLC
Leadership, 7/59 |
Ella Baker, SCLC |
|
1960 | |
The Hampton
Sit-Ins and Southern Society (VA) |
Everette & Jackson |
Montgomery
Students Sit In Story (AL), 2/60 |
Unsigned |
The Marshall
Sit-Ins, April (TX), 6/60 |
Biship College students |
|
1961 | |
Letter re
Freedom Riders in Montgomery, 7/61 |
Virginia Durr |
The
Plantation and the Oasis (MS), Fall 61 |
Joan Traumpauer (re Tougaloo) |
Albany Freedom Ride Letters and Chronology (GA) |
Joan Browning |
|
1962 | |
Report from
Hollis Watkins and Curtis Hayes (MS), 1/62 | Watkins
& Hayes (SNCC) |
Field Reports: Cambridge MD.
January 15,
January 20, and
January 25
|
Reginald Robinson & William Hanson, SNCC & CIG |
Field Reports: Dawson GA.
January 28 and
February 8 |
Charles Sherrod, SNCC |
Recent
Progress of the Jackson Nonviolent Movement, 2/62 |
Paul Brooks, SNCC |
SNCC voter registration campaign (Albany GA) |
Author unknown |
Letter to Web
Owens (McComb, MS), 5/62 |
Ella Baker, SNCC |
Report re Freedom Rides, (Shreveport,
LA) 5/25/62 |
Dave Dennis, CORE |
Letter to
Jim, (Gadsden AL) 11/6/62 |
Frank Holloway, SNCC |
Letter From
Albany GA, 11/62 |
Faith Holsaert, SNCC |
Report on
First Mass Meeting in Sumter County (GA), 11/62 |
Faith Holsaert, SNCC |
Economy of Ruleville,
Mississippi (re Food Blockade),11/62 |
Cobb & McLaurin, SNCC |
Letter to
Jim, Sunflower County, MS, 12/18/62 |
Charles McLaurin, SNCC |
Letter
to Martha Prescod re Hunger in MS, 12/62 |
Bob Moses, SNCC/COFO |
Weekly
Report (Southwest GA), 12/62 |
John O'Neal, SNCC |
Letter
to Wiley Branton of VEP About Albany GA, 12/8/62 |
Penny Patch, SNCC |
Report on
Work in Marshall County (MS), 12/8/62 |
Frank Smith, SNCC |
|
1963 | |
Letter to Jim
[Forman?], from Greenwood MS. 1/63 |
Sam Block, SNCC |
Letter to
Amzie Moore (NAACP) (MS) 1/13/63 | Maurice N[illegible],
OFC |
Lee County
Movement, A Bid For Freedom, 1/14/63 |
Charles Wingfield |
Report on
Mississippi Project for 1962, 1/21/63 |
Bob Moses, SNCC |
Letter to Northern Supporters (MS),
1/23/63 |
Bob Moses, SNCC |
SNCC Field
Reports (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference) | |
Letter to Operation Freedom re Suphronia Conway (MS) 1/31/63 | Amzie Moore, NAACP |
Notes on the Delta Area of Mississippi 2/63 | Jack McArt, OFC |
Reply to Suphronia Conway letter (MS) 2/2/63 | Maurice
N[illegible], OFC |
Letter to Amzie Moore re emergency food donations (MS) 2/8/63 | David Dennis, CORE/COFO |
Appeal letter to Amzie Moore (MS) 2/15/63 | Unsigned from
Greenwood MS |
My Participation in the Sit-ins (NC) |
Hulda Taylor |
Dear Judy: (Letter from Greenwood, MS) |
Bob {Illegible}, SNCC |
Selected
Sections Field Report (MS), 3/63 |
David Dennis, CORE |
Note to unidentified SNCC member (re
The Mailman's March?) | Willie (Wazir) Peacock, SNCC |
Danville, VA (Police violence) |
Louis Nasper |
Gadsden, AL (The Gadsden Movement) |
Eric Rainey |
Journal (Southwest Georgia), Summer
63 |
Dennis Roberts |
Letter to Attorney General re Jackson MS June 14 1963 | Theodore Brown, ANLCA |
Letter to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights re MS, July 1963 | Bob Moses, SNCC/COFO |
Letter to Jack O'Dell re his forced resignation, July 3 1963 | Martin Luther King, SCLC |
Letter From Albany, GA, 8/10/63 |
Miriam Cohen, SNCC |
Correspondence related to Don Harris arrest on capital
charges (Americus GA) 1963 | Julian Bond (SNCC) &
others |
To Bob Mants & Dave Bell from Americus Jail (GA) 8/63 |
Ralph Allen, SNCC |
Letter to the Kennedys re lack of justice (MS) 9/20/63 |
Sam Block, SNCC |
Letter to
Northern Supporters (MS), 9/30/63 |
Mrs. Hamer, SNCC |
Jackson Mississippi (Police
harassment), Fall 63 |
Ivanhoe Donaldson, SNCC |
Letter to SNCC
About Direct Action, Fall 63 |
Courtland Cox, SNCC |
Myles Horton
to Bob Moses, 10/18/63 |
Myles Horton, Highlander Folk School |
The Freedom Ballot for Governor (MS),
10/23/63 |
Joan Bowman COFO |
Integration in the Deep South:
Death Goes On, Fall 63 |
Miriam Cohen, SNCC |
Memo to ExComm re Mississippi Project |
Bob Moses, SNCC |
Letter to
national CORE re Mississippi situation & plans, 11/18/63 |
Dave Dennis, CORE |
Letter to
Slater King, (GA) 12/17/63 | Robert F. Williams,
NAACP |
Letter From an Americus Jail, About Organizing (GA) |
Randy Battle, SNCC |
Southwest Georgia Project
Report/Proposals, 12/27/63 |
Charles Sherrod, SNCC |
Evaluation of
SNCC in Americus (GA) 12/63 | Don Harris, SNCC |
|
1964 | |
Freedom Ring Encircles Ticket Booth (New Orleans) |
Doris Castle, CORE |
Letter re
Jackson MS church segregation & civil liberties, 1/64 |
Rev. Lee Ball, MFSA |
Report about
Tallahatchi County, 1/15/64 |
Charlie Cobb, SNCC |
Letter to
Bradens re emergency food distribution, 1/16/64 |
Mendy Samstein, SNCC |
Field
report, re Louisiana voter registration. 1/19/64 |
Ronnie Moore, CORE |
Letter to
Anne Braden (MS), 1/23/64 |
Rita Schwerner, COFO |
Letter to James McCain regarding Gainesville, FL CORE
1/21/64 |
Judy Benninger, CORE |
Report From the
Jackson Movement, (MS), 1/27/64 |
Joan (Trumpauer?), NAACP |
Letter to
Bradens re emergency food situation, 1/29/64 |
Mendy Samstein, SNCC |
Organization of Students From Georgia Tech, Agnes Scott College, and Emory
University (GA) 1/31/64 |
Rick Stevens, SNCC |
Report From
Sunflower County (MS), 2/64 |
Charles McLaurin,
SNCC |
Report by Phone From Leflore County MS re Ruleville,
2/18/64 | Charlie Cobb, SNCC |
Report From
Sunflower County (MS), 2/19/64 | Charles McLaurin,
SNCC |
Letter
re employment discrimination by Olin Mathieson (LA). 3/2/64 |
CORE Lousiana Task Force |
Report From the
Jackson Movement, (MS). 3/11/64 |
Joan (Trumpauer?), NAACP |
Field Report re Ennis CORE (TX) 3/17/64 |
Tom Valetine, CORE |
S.W. Georgia
Field Report 3/27/64 | Don Harris, SNCC |
Report
on the March on Tallahassee, (FL), 4/1/64 |
Patricia Due, CORE |
Dear Brother
and Sister SNCCers, (MS) 4/1/64 |
R. Hunter Morey, SNCC |
Letter re
Big Bend Voter Education Campaign (FL) 4/2/64 |
Patricia Due, CORE |
Letter to
Gordon Carey re operations and problems, (LA) 4/6/64 |
Richard Haley, CORE |
Dear Fellow CORE Members (to New Orleans CORE). 4/16/64 |
Richard Haley, CORE |
Report From the
Jackson Movement, (MS). 4/19/64 |
Joan (Trumpauer?), NAACP |
Report to James McCain regarding Dunnellen CORE (FL)
4/23/64 |
Judy Benninger, CORE |
Report:
Wildcat strike by hotel maids in New Orleans, 4/28/64 |
Many strikers, CORE |
CORE's North Florida
Citizenship Education Project (NFCEP). Many authors &
dates |
Letter to
John Lewis (SNCC). 5/7/64 |
Unsigned, re ExCom Mtg |
Letter to
Ronnie Moore, re Louisiana summer project, 5/11/64 |
Marcia (no lastname), CORE |
Letter to
CORE leader James McCain re Louisiana voter registration, 5/13/64 |
Unsigned, CORE |
Letter to
Ronnie Moore, re parishes for Louisiana summer project, 5/14/64 |
Michael (Lesser?),
CORE |
Letter re
Gainsville CORE, 5/29/64 (FL) |
Judy Benninger, CORE |
Letter From Jim
Boebel (MS) 5/31/64 |
Jim Boebel, COFO |
Why I Am Going to
Mississippi, 6/9/64 |
Chude Allen, SNCC |
All-Day CORE Conference, Dunnellon Florida, 6/22/64 |
Judy Benninger, CORE |
Field Report,
West Feliciana Parish Louisiana, 6/24/64 | Mimi
Feingold, CORE |
Report from Pointe Coupee Parish (LA) | Ewan, Cortez &
Burger, CORE |
Report From St. Fransville Hardwood Plantation, undated (LA) |
Unsigned, CORE |
Thoughts on the
disappearance of Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman (MS) |
Anne Braden, SCEF |
A Special Report on the Jonesboro,
Louisiana 7/64 |
Daniel Mitchell, CORE |
Report — Terror in Shaw MS, 7/13/64 |
Wally Roberts, SNCC |
Notes on
parents meeting with James Forman, Steve Schwerner, 7/20/64
(See Lynching of Chaney, Schwerner,
& Goodman for background.) |
Unsigned. COFO? SNCC? |
Memo re Second District MFDP Convention, MS |
Stokely Carmichael, SNCC |
Report From Amite County, (MS) |
Marshall Ganz, COFO |
Weekly Report, CORE Florida Task Force, 8/5/64 |
Judy Benninger, CORE |
Report Desegregate Sand Springs
Schools (OK),8/18/64 |
James Russell, CORE |
Request
to CORE for assistance, 8/19/64 |
Daytona, FL |
Madison
County Freedom School Reports (MS) 8/25/64 |
Jo Ann Ooiman, CORE |
Report:
Observations Regarding Cleveland Mississippi,9/2/64 |
Hall & Gregg, COFO? |
Field
report, re Daytona Beach FL, 9/23/64 |
Ronnie Moore, CORE |
Gainsville
(FL) CORE, Reorganization and Program, 10/1/64 |
Judy Benninger, CORE |
Report
From Batesville Conference on Freedom Schools (MS) 10/2/64 |
Jo Ann (Ooiman?), COFO |
COFO Freedom
House Bombing, Vicksburg, MS, 10/6/64 |
William Melish, COFO |
Individual Reports, (MS) 10/12/64 |
Jo Ann Ooiman, CORE |
Letter to Richard Haley
re CORE contact, 10/12/64 | Sandra Watts, CORE |
Letter to Sandra Watts
re CORE contact, 10/15/64 | Richard Haley, CORE |
Letter re problems in North Florida CORE project,
10/18/64 | Steve McVoy, CORE |
Letter to Richard Haley, (FL) 10/20/64 |
Elton Cox, CORE |
Memo on
Organizing, 10/23/64 |
Mike Miller, SNCC |
Mississippi Freedom Project — Crises in McComb (MS)
10/23/64 | Dave Harris, COFO volunteer |
Report From Madison
& Rankin Counties, (MS) |
Mary Shupenko, CORE |
Report From
Moss Point-Pascagoula (MS), | Unknown |
Correspondence re Holly Springs project, (MS) 11/64 |
Cleveland Sellers, SNCC |
Report on
Sunflower County (MS) |
John Harris, SNCC |
Dear
Hodeses, letter re Jackson. 11/19/64 (MS) |
Viki & Martin Nicolaus, SNCC/COFO |
Incident report, Quincy Florida, 11/23/64 |
David McVoy, CORE |
Progress Report for Havana Florida, 11/27/64 |
Arlene Bock, David Dukes, CORE |
CORE Field Reports From
Florida, |
Stuart Wechsler,
CORE |
Progress Report for Havana Florida, 12/14/64 |
Arlene Bock, David Dukes, CORE |
Letter to ILGWU, 12/18/64 |
Stuart Wechsler,
CORE |
Dear
Friends, letter from Hattiesburg (MS). 12/28/64 |
COFO |
Barbara
Schwartzbaum Letter (MS). |
Schwartzbaum |
Report From Jonesboro (LA) |
Fredrick Brooks, CORE |
Dear
Alicia, undated from Sunflower Co. MS |
Linda Kaplow, COFO |
|
1965 | |
Letter re
gathering freedom songs 1/65 | Guy & Candie Carawan,
Highlander |
Report From
Marshal County (MS).1/2/65 |
Larry Rubin, SNCC |
Letter re police repression in Starkeville MS,
1/26/65 |
Bernard Carver & Ron Carver |
Mississippi Field Report, 1/19/65 | Richard Jewett, MFDP |
CORE Field Reports From
Florida |
Stuart Wechsler,
CORE |
The School Boycott, Moultrie,
GA, 2/65 |
Herman Kitchen |
New Orleans
Community Organizers — Report | Matt
Suarez |
Report From Marks
MS, 2/3/65 ("1964" probably a mistype) | COFO |
Letter to Hodes, re du
Bois Freedom Library
Jackson MS. 2/3/65 | "V" and "M" (assumed to be Vicki and
Martin Nicolaus), COFO |
Report: CORE Canton Project, (MS) 2/7/65 |
Unsigned, CORE |
Dear
Hodeses (MS), 2/15/65 | "V" (Vicki Ortiz Nicolaus),
COFO |
Letter to George
Smith, 2/15/65 | Richard Haley, CORE |
Mississippi
Letter, (26-pgs), 2/15/65 |
Stephen Bingham, MFDP |
The Stench of Freedom (Selma)
2/20/65 |
Ralph Featherstone, SNCC |
Why I Stopped Being on SNCC
Staff (MS). 2/25/65 |
Miriam Glickman |
Sunflower County — Activity Report,
(MS) | Unknown, COFO |
Hattiesburg COFO - Very Active (MS).
2/24/65 | COFO |
Perry
County Alabama Report (AL), 2/65 | SNCC |
Progress
report, Jefferson & Madison County FL, 2/28/65 |
David Dukes, CORE |
Letter re residential freedom school in Cordele GA
3/7/65 | Roy Shields, SNCC |
Report on Demonstration at Capitol Club, Little Rock, AR 3/11/65 |
Arlene Wigoren, SNCC |
SNCC Field Report -- Helena Project (AR) 3/15/65 |
Arlene Wigoren, SNCC |
CORE field report, Tallahassee, FL. 3/15/65 |
Le Faucette, CORE |
Letter &
Report to Rev. Gayraud Wilmore (MS) 3/15/65 |
Rev. Harry Bowie, DM |
Memo to
Atlanta SNCC re Selma, 3/16/65. (AL) |
Howard Zinn |
Bienville
Parish Report, 3/19/65 | Ronnie Moore, CORE |
Alabama Project, 3/65 |
Randy Glenn, SNCC. |
Letter From
Batesville (MS) 3/19/65
(WATS reports & Selma) |
Patch, Williams, DeLott, Grant & Brown, SNCC |
Help Urgently
Needed in Alabama, 3/24/65 |
Dombrowski & Braden, SCEF |
Last Day of the Selma-Montgomery
March (AL), 3/29/65 |
Rev. Dr. Janet Wolfe |
Letter
re CORE and Selma & March to Montgomery (AL), 4/2/65 |
Randy Glenn, CORE |
Letter re Selma &
Montgomery protests, 4/2/65 |
Unsigned. SCEF? |
Scouting Report of Natchitoches Parish (LA). 4/65 | Judith Rollins, CORE |
Field
Report, Jefferson & Madison Counties (FL) 4/15/65 |
David Dukes,
CORE |
Report on Arrest of Charles Williams (Bogalusa LA).
4/16/65 | Will Ussery, CORE |
Four letters from Selma, AL
| Bruce Hartford,
SCLC |
Letter to Eric
Weinberger re OEO in Meridian, 4/5/65 | Richard Haley,
CORE |
Letter re Meridian
Project status, 5/15/65 | Catherine Crowell, CORE. |
Field
Report (FL) 4/30/65 |
Spiver Gordon, CORE |
Letter From Holly Springs & Benton Co. (MS) Spring 65 |
Aviva Futorian,
COFO |
Letter From
Holly Springs (MS) 5/5/65 |
Hardy Frye, SNCC |
A Reflective
Look (Julian Bond's Campaign) (GA) 5/7/65 |
Charlie Cobb, SNCC |
Letter
to Ronnie Moore re Deacons for Defense & Justice (LA) 5/11/65 |
Earnest Thomas, Deacons |
Letter From
Holly Springs (MS) 5/14/65 |
Unsigned |
Scouting Report — St. Tammany Parish (LA),
5/65? | Mimi Feingold,
CORE |
Report to
Richard Haley 5/65 (MS) |
Sandra Watts, CORE |
Field Report — Washington Parish (Bogalusa
LA). 6/65 |
Unknown |
Newton County Report, June 1965 (MS) |
George Smith Jr. CORE |
Report
for Madison County, 6/2/65 (MS) |
Bill Forsyth, CORE |
Two Letters to Bob Moses (MS) June 1964 |
Joseph Rauh |
Letter From Jackson Jail (MS) |
Nancy Turitz, SNCC |
Four Letters From Mississippi |
Eugene & Nancy Turitz,
SNCC |
Letter From MS Governor Johnson |
To CA Gov. Brown |
Stokely's Speech Class |
Jane Stembridge, SNCC |
Position Paper: Funds-Sources & Staff Salaries |
Joanne Gavin, SNCC |
Reports From Crawfordville GA, May-Oct. |
Clarke, Luther, Barber & Swan, SCLC |
Meridian
Project Report, 6/15/65 | Named CORE Staff |
Report
From Valley View Office (MS) | Andrew Green,
CORE |
Statement re carrying shotgun (LA) |
Harvey Malray, Deacons |
Jackson City Jail (MS) |
James Kates, COFO |
Dear Friends (MS) |
Harriet, CDGM |
Claiborne Parish, LA (Homer), CORE incident report,
7/12/65, | |
Letter re CORE Summer Project (LA) |
Meldon Acheson, CORE |
Letter to Mayor of Baton
Rouge LA re segregation 7/28/65 | Murphy Dell,
NAACP |
Gulfport, MS. Report & Analysis |
Sam Walker, COFO |
Letter
re residential freedom school in Chcago (AR) 7/1/65 |
Silas Norman, SNCC |
Report From Claiborne Parish (Homer, LA) | Unknown |
Letter From Natchez, MS |
Jim |
Letter to DoJ
re Denial of Voting Rights (AL) |
James Kolb |
Westpoint Mississippi, (re violence) 8/20/65 |
Unsigned |
Telephone
Report (Natchez, MS) 9/27/65 |
Stoney Cooks, SCLC |
Letter to
Bruce Hartford, SCLC (AL) |
Havard Richburg, CCVL |
Field Reports From Alabama SNCC Staff Meeting, October
1965. (Includes reports from SCLC projects and East Tennessee Voters
Project) | |
Report from Africa on Organization of African Unity (OAU)
10/10/65 | Dona Richards, SNCC |
Report on
the Beginnings of the Africa Project 10/65 | Dona
Richards, SNCC |
Dear
Anya (re civil rights work in Alabama), fall 1965 | Bruce Hartford, SCLC |
Letter From Lowndes County (AL) |
Stokely Carmichael, SNCC |
Southwest Georgia SNCC Field Reports 11/22/65 | SNCC Georgia field staff |
Notes on Rural Organizing |
Charles McLaurin, SNCC |
To Whom This May Concern (MS) |
Willie Griggs |
Report on Lowndes County tent city. (AL) |
Fay Bellamy |
Report on Alabama MCHR Project | Unknown, MCHR |
|
1966 | |
Dear
Mary (to Mary King re SNCC) 1/9/66 |
Charlie Cobb, SNCC |
Three Field Reports from Hale
County |
Bruce Hartford,
SCLC |
Report on Marengo County (AL) |
Rev. Samuel Wells, SCLC |
An Organizer's Notebook, (AR) 6/9/66 | Unsigned,
SNCC |
Letter
about the Meredith Mississippi March, July 1966 |
Bruce Hartford,
SCLC |
Weekly
Report, Grenada MS. 8/10/66 |
Bruce Hartford, SCLC |
Daily Individual
Report, Grenada MS. 8/12/66 |
Bruce Hartford, SCLC |
Memo to SNCC Central Committee (MS) 8/20/66 | Sid Walker,
SNCC |
Weekly
Report, Grenada MS. 9/1/66. |
Bruce Hartford, SCLC |
Letter Describing Medgar Evers (MS) |
John Salter, NAACP |
Report on a
Meeting of Community Organizers in MS. |
Lorenzi & Shimkin,
FIS |
Lowndes County Election Fraud |
Gwen Patton, SNCC |
School
Integration Report, Grenada, MS. 9/16/66 |
Bruce Hartford, SCLC |
Arrest Report, Grenada MS. 10/27/66,
1966 | Bruce Hartford,
SCLC |
ASCS Organizing Report
#1, undated (fall 1966) | Bruce
Hartford, SCLC |
ASCS Report #2, undated
(fall 1966) | Bruce Hartford,
SCLC |
Report on Poor Peoples Committee (Grenada MS) 12/6/66
| Bruce Hartford,
SCLC |
North &
South Report (re Grenada MS), December 1966 |
Bruce Hartford,
SCLC |
A Little Old Report (re Stokeley & SNCC) Late 1966? | Fay Bellamy, SNCC |
|
1967 | |
Report on Poor Peoples Committee 1/14/67 (Grenada
MS) | Bruce Hartford,
SCLC |
Dear Staff (To SNCC) |
Fay |
Letter to US
on his Trip to Vietnam, 3/16/65 |
Charlie Cobb, SNCC |
Letter to US
on his Trip to Vietnam, 3/19/65 |
Charlie Cobb, SNCC |
Dear Mom and Dad (1967) |
John Obee |
Letter on Role of Women |
Fay Bellamy, SNCC |
Report to SNCC Staff on Trip to Cuba | George Ware, SNCC |
|
1968 | |
Report to the SCEF Board From the Deep South Project |
Dorothy Zellner, SCEF |
Report from Grenada MS. 7/26-8/2/68 |
Charles Jefferson, SCLC |
Report from Grenada MS. 9/9-9/14/68 |
Charles Jefferson, SCLC |
Report from Grenada MS. 9/16-9/22/68 |
Charles Jefferson, SCLC |
Weekly Report, Grenada MS. 10/29/68 |
Charles Jefferson, SCLC |
Letter to Hosea Williams from Grenada MS, 11/6/68 |
Charles Jefferson, SCLC |
Weekly Report, Grenada MS. 11/18/68 |
Charles Jefferson, SCLC |
Weekly Report, Grenada MS. 12/9/68 |
Charles Jefferson, SCLC |