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The Southern Freedom Movement
Articles & Speeches by Movement Veterans
This section contains articles and resources written by Freedom Movement participants about Movement events and aspects. Most of these articles are in PDF format.
See also:
History & Timeline: 1951-1968 — Descriptions of Movement events.
Letters & Reports From the Field — By Movement veterans.
Discussions — Transcripts of group discussions by veterans.
Our Stories — Memories, narratives & interviews of Movement veterans.
Our Thoughts — Analyses and commentaries by Movement veterans.
Documents — Movement publications, reports, organizing materials, strategy papers, etc.
Articles About Major Events
General Topics
Voting Rights History — Two Centuries of Struggle, Bruce Hartford
Voting Rights — Are You "Qualified" to Vote? (Literacy tests)
Women in the Freedom Movement. (Compilation)
Freedom Songs and Singers. (Multiple articles)
Nonviolent Resistance. (Multiple articles)
Example Segregation Laws. (Birmingham & Montgomery)
Freedom Movement Events and Aspects | |
|---|---|
| 1946 | Behold the Land, W.E.B. DuBois. Address to Southern Youth Legislature of the Southern Negro Youth Congress |
| 1952 | Martyr for a Cause: Christmas Night Bomb Assasination of
Harry Moore, Gloster Current, NAACP. (See Murder of Harry & Harriette Moore for background.) |
| 1954-66 | Literacy and Liberation, Septima P. Clark. Freedomways. (See Citizenship Schools for background.) |
| 1954 | What Negroes Want Now, Walter White, NAACP.
U.S. News & World Report. (See Brown v Board of Education for background.) |
| 1954 | Status of Racial Integration in the Armed Forces, Clarence Mitchell. NAACP. Journal of Negro Education. |
| 1954 | Southern Negroes at the Ballot Box, Herbert Hill, NAACP. Crises, May, 1954. |
| 1954 | How Washington's Color Line Looks to Me, Walter White, NAACP. Saturday Evening Post. |
| 1954 | Desegregation at Work: Progress and Problems, Henry Lee
Moon. NAACP. Nation, December 18, 1954. (School desegregation.)
(See Brown v Board of Education and "Massive Resistance" to Integration for background.) |
| 1955-56 | Montgomery Bus Boycott (Multiple articles & documents) |
| 1955 |
Desegregation in
the Public Schools: Role of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins, NAACP.
Social Problems, April, 1955. (See Brown v Board of Education for background.) |
| 1956-66 | Birmingham Movement. (Multiple articles & documents) |
| 1956 | The South in Conflict, Herbert Hill, NAACP. New Leader, April 2nd |
| 1956 | Next Steps in the South, New South, Southern
Regional Council. (See Brown v Board of Education for background.) |
| 1957 | Even in the Face of Death, Bayard Rustin.
Liberation. (See Southern Christian Leadership Conference Founded for background.) |
| 1957 | Swimming Pool Showdown, Robert Williams. Southern Exposure.
(See Robert Williams & Armed Self-Defense in Monroe NC for background.) |
| 1957 | Address by Rev. Shuttlesworth to Pilgramage for
Civil Rights (See Prayer Pilgrimage for Civil Rights for background.) |
| 1958 | Who Speaks for the South?, Martin Luther King. Liberation |
| 1958 | Integration Must Move, Roy Wilkins, NAACP. Atlantic Monthly. |
| 1958 | A First Step Toward School Integration,
Ann Holden, Nashville CORE. (Pamphlet) (See Nashville "Grade-a-Year" School Desegregation Scheme for background.) |
| 1960 | Sit-Ins of 1960-61. (Multiple articles) |
| 1960 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Founded. (Multiple articles) |
| 1960 | The Burning Truth in the South, Martin Luther King. SCLC reprint of Progressive article. (See Alabama Attacks Black Leaders for background.) |
| 1961 | Freedom Rides. (Multiple articles & Documents) |
| 1961 | The White Problem, Albert Bigelow. Liberation
(See Freedom Rides for background.) |
| 1953-61 | Cracking the Color Line. Multiple articles about CORE actions & campaigns. |
| 1961-66 | Mississippi ~ Into the Storm. (Multiple articles) |
| 1961-67 | SNCC Organizing Presence in Alabama: A Partial Timeline, Gwen Patton. |
| 1961-64 | Albany & S.W. Georgia Movement. (Multiple articles) |
| 1962 | The Southern Youth
Movement, Julian Bond. Freedomways. (See Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Founded for background.) |
| 1962 | The Labor
Class at Tougaloo, Fall, 1962 (Re Jackson MS Movement of 1962-63) |
| 1962 | Revolution in Mississippi, Tom Hayden. 30-page Students
for a Democratic Society pamphlet about the McComb Movement (2 pages
missing) (See Voter Registration & Direct-Action in McComb MS for background.) |
| 1962-64 | Focus on Cambridge, Gloria Richardson. Freedomways. (See Cambridge MD — 1962 for background.) |
| 1963 | Why Didn't They Hit Back? Jhan & June Robbins,
Redbook. CORE pamphlet. (See Cambridge MD — 1962 for background.) |
| 1956-66 | Birmingham Movement. (Multiple articles & documents) |
| 1963 | Danville Virginia SNCC pamphlet (See Danville VA, Movement for background.) |
| 1963 | March on Washington. (Multiple articles) |
| 1963 | Guilty Bystanders, James Farmer. Liberation. (See Birmingham Church Bombing for background.) |
| 1963 | Smoke Screen—the Red Scare, Anne Braden. Freedomways |
| 1963 | Siege at Savannah, Benjamin Van Clark. Freedomways |
| 1963 | On the Role of Private Black Colleges in the Southern Freedom Movement, John Salter (Hunter Bear), September 11, 1963 |
| 1963 | Address to SCLC Convention, Wyatt T. Walker. (After March on Washington and Birmingham Church Bombing) |
| 1963 | SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters, Howard Zinn. The Nation |
| 1963 | Registration in Alabama, Howard Zinn. New
Republic (See Freedom Day in Selma for background.) |
| 1963 | Nonviolence and Police Brutality, Quebec-Guantanamo Peace Walkers. Liberation |
| 1963-64 | St. Augustine Movement. (Multiple articles) |
| 1963 |
Birth of a
Voter, Bob Adelman (CORE reprint of an Ebony Magazine article written in 1963.) |
| 1964? | Some Notes on Education, Charles Cobb, SNCC.
(See Freedom Schools for background.) |
| 1964-65 | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), (Multiple articles) |
| 1964 | Incident in Hattiesburg, Howard Zinn. The Nation
(See Freedom Day in Hattiesburg for background.) |
| 1964 | Speech by Mike Miller regarding SNCC and the Freedom Movement. |
| 1964-66 | Freedom is not Free: Meridian Movement of the Mid-60s, George Smith & Joe Morse |
| 1964 | Freedom Summer. (Multiple articles) |
| 1964 | Freedom Schools. (Multiple articles) |
| 1964 | Chaney-Schwerner-Goodman Lynching, (Multiple articles) |
| 1964 | McComb Mississippi, Incidents & Events (Multiple articles) |
| 1964 | Bob Moses Speech to National Guardian Dinner,
November. (See MFDP Challenge to Democratic Convention for background.) |
| 1964-65 | Mississippi Congressional Challenge, (Multiple articles) |
| 1964-66 | Free Southern Theater. (Multiple articles) |
| 1965 | Selma Voting Rights Campaign & March to Montgomery (Multiple articles) | 1965-67 | Lowndes County Freedom Organization/Black Panther Party (Multiple articles) |
| 1965 | When We Get the Vote, Wallace Will Get Religion (Montgomery), Bell Chivigny (Village Voice) |
| 1965 | Questions Raised by Bob Moses, SNCC 5th Anniversary. The Movement |
| 1965 | Short History of the Freedom Movement in Barbour County,
Alabama, Larry Scott Butler, SCLC/SCOPE (See SCOPE Summer Project for background.) |
| 1966-68 | Black Power (Multiple articles) |
| 1966 | Mississippi Election—1966 (Panola County), Jonathan Steinberg. Liberation |
| 1966 | Grenada Mississippi—Chronology of a Movement, Bruce Hartford. |
| 1966 | Politics of Necessity & Survival in Mississippi, Guyot & Thewell. Freedomways |
| 1967 | Speech to Black Caucus of NCNP by James Forman,
September 2nd. (National Conference for New Politics held in Chicago.) |
| 1967 |
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break
Silence, Martin Luther King. Riverside Church, New York City, April
4, 1967. Address to Anti-War Marchers, Martin Luther King. New York City, April 15, 1967 |
| 1967 | Cooperation, Not Competition; Community, Not the
Individual, SNCC. (Statement on education and the Black community.) |
| 67? 68? | 1967 High Tide of Black Resistance, James Forman. 27-page page SNCC pamphlet. |
| 1968 | Memphis is Also America, Pat Watters. Nation |
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