[SCLC's 1965 SCOPE project brought hundreds of northern college students and Freedom Movement supporters into Black communities in six southern states. In some ways similar to COFO's 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, SCOPE focused on voter-registration and community organization in anticipation of imminent passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. There were county-level SCOPE projects in Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. Some SCOPE projects and individual activists continued into 1966.]
See SCOPE Summer
Project for background & more information.
See SCLC/SCOPE Summer
Project, 1965 for web links.
Articles About SCOPE
SCOPE Recruitment & Training
Organizing & Operations
Local SCOPE Projects
SCOPE-SCLC Reports
Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project, Willy Siegel Leventhal. 2012. Overview of the SCOPE project.
SCLC/SCOPE Project, Maria Gitin
Letter From a Movement Boot Camp, Maria Gitin
Letter From Wilcox County, Maria Gitin
UCSB SCOPE Project 1965, Lanny Kaufer, Sussex County, VA.
Short History of the Freedom Movement in Barbour County, Alabama, Larry Scott Butler
Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project of SCLC. Four-page description of SCOPE project, probably from April or May of '65.
Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE). One-page handout describing SCOPE project, probably from April or May of '65.
MCHR Letter to SCOPE Volunteers, May 1965.
Release Form, signed by SCOPE volunteers to hold SCLC free of liability if they're injured or killed.
SCLC-SCOPE Orientation Agenda, June 1965. (Note, page 3 is missing.)
SCLC SCOPE brochure.
Meet Tommy Smith, SCOPE brochure.
Help Me Find the Key to Freedom.
List of SCOPE Volunteers, by county worked.
[Note that this is an incomplete, partial list with many inaccuracies. It also fails to include SCLC field staff who worked on, or headed, SCOPE projects.]SCOPE Counties and College Chapters, undated 1965.
[A snapshot in time of a fluid situation.]Canvas Form, used during house-by-house visits.
SCOPE Memo to Projects re Reporting, Hosea Williams, SCLC. Late June or Early July, 1965.
Press Statement: Ralph Abernathy, July 1, 1965. On violence and repression against SCOPE voter-registration volunteers.
SCOPE Memo to Projects re Mobilizing for Passage of Voting Rights Act, July 28, 1965. Hosea Williams, SCLC.
SCOPE/SCLC Incident Reports July-Oct, 1965.
Results of SCLC's SCOPE Project, Hosea Williams (SCLC).
[Note that some observers consider that the numbers cited in this report for political education and community organizing are exaggerated.]SCOPE for 1966, Hosea Williams, SCLC.
Selma Newsletter, July 9, 1965.
The New Virginia, newsletter of Virginia Students Civil Rights Committee, Sept '65.
SCOPE Report From Crenshaw County Alabama, late June or early July, 1965.
Letter to Justice Department re Denial of Voting Rights, James Kolb, Crenshaw County Alabama, Aug or Sept 1965
Results of SCLC's SCOPE Project, Hosea Williams (SCLC).
SCLC Voter Registration Totals by State, October 30.
SCLC Voter Registration Department Report, November.
Chicago Area SCOPE Meeting, October 1965. Report & evaluation of SCOPE work over the summer.
Voter Registration in Alabama, November, 1965.
[WVAP & NVAP = White/Negro voting age population
#W/N-Reg = Number of Whites/Negroes registered to vote at that time,
%w/n-r = Percentage of eligible Whites/Negroes registered.
The SCLC 10-65 column is cumulative from June through the end of October.]
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