This section contains stories, oral histories, diaries,
interviews, narratives, and remembrances about the author's
experiences in the Freedom Movement. In most cases these were
written or told in later years.
Author | Title/Description |
Many Movement veterans |
Lighter Moments |
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Sandra Adickes |
History Lessons in Hattiesburg (MS) |
Barbara Barnes Allen |
Oral History/Interview (St. Augustine, FL) |
Chude Pam Parker Allen |
My Mother and Father Believe Ours Is a Good Country
Would You Marry One? (MS)
Loneliness in the Circle of Trust (MS)
Watching the Iris Grow (MS)
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Ella Baker | Interview Excerpts, 1968
Oral History, 1974 (100pages, large file) |
Randy Battle (Albany, GA) |
The Great Pool Jump...
Grocers and Groceries; Charlie Ware; and 'Gator Johnson
Driving for Attorney C.B. King (GA)
Memories of Stokely Carmichael
An Education; A Memory of Stokely
A Dispute over a Bull
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Hunter Bear (John Salter) |
Oral History (MS & NC)
A Magnolia Tale (MS)
Black-Belt Thunder (NC & SCEF)
Bertie County, NC: Taking the 1700s into the 20th Century |
Unita Blackwell | Fix It for Free (About Muriel Tillinghast in MS) |
Julian Bond | Interview Excerpts, (SNCC) |
Charles Bonner |
Oral History/Interview (Selma, AL) |
Ellen Broms | "High Yellow" (Freedom Rides) |
Joan Browning |
Religion and Joining SNCC |
Peter Buck | Transcript of 1965 Journal (SCOPE Project) |
Larry Butler | Diary of an Alabama SCOPE Volunteer (Barbour Co. 1965) |
Cathy Cade |
My Family, the Movement, and Me (Albany, GA)
My First Demonstration, Atlanta, 1962 |
Septima Clark |
Dismissal (NAACP, SC) |
Charlie Cobb |
Oral History (SNCC) |
George Conway |
A Matter of Honor (St. Augustine, FL) |
Fatima Cortez-Todd |
Honoring Our Ancestors, Honoring Ourselves |
William "Meatball" Douthard |
I'll Never Forget Alabama Law (Gadsden, AL) |
Karen Duncanwood | Remembrances of Mississippi Summer 1964 |
Gail Falk |
Remembering Freedom Summer (MS) |
Kathryn Fentress |
A Journey of the Spirit (St. Augustine, FL) |
Bettie Mae Fikes |
Oral History/Interview (Selma, AL) |
Jim Forman |
A Band of Brothers, A Circle of Trust (SNCC, Atlanta) |
[Freedom Summer] | Remembrances of Freedom Summer 1964 6(MS) |
Jo Freeman |
Viewing Rosa Parks |
Hardy Frye |
Narrative (SNCC, MS & AL)
Everyone Was a Leader (MS) |
Betty Garman | Interview (SNCC) |
Joanne Gavin |
The Moon in Alabama is Big and Yellow |
Maria Gitin | Story From Wilcox County, Alabama
Letter From Wilcox County, Alabama |
Miriam Cohen Glickman |
Oral History (Albany & MS)
Our Mississippi Dilemma
Vietnam War Protest, 1965 |
Heather Gray |
A Month of Infamy 38 Years Ago (MS) |
Stephen Green |
Freedom Rider Diary - 40 Years Later |
Lawrence Guyot |
Testimony for MFDP Congressional Challenge
Interview, 2012 |
Linda Halpern | The Shooting of Silas McGhee (Greenwood, MS) |
Fannie Lou Hamer |
Interview: Life in Mississippi (MFDP, MS)
Interview: Winona, Mississippi [PDF]
Testimony at Democratic Convention |
Robert Hargreaves | Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 |
Don Harris | Oral History (SNCC, SW Georgia) |
Bruce Hartford |
Oral History (CORE & SCLC, AL & MS)
Albert Turner & the Rocking Chair (AL) |
Casey Hayden | Roots of Feminism in the Redemptive Community (SNCC) |
Marion Helland | Freedom School, Voter Registration, Marches (AL, MS) |
Margaret Herring |
Narrative (Lauren McSurely) |
Yvonne Hilton | Responses to Interview Questions ... (Baltimore & Black Power) |
Stu House | "Inciting to Riot" in Selma AL |
Rodney L. Hurst, Sr. |
It was never about a hot dog and a Coke! (Jacksonville sit-ins) |
John Jackson | Remembrance (Lowndes County, Alabama) |
Don Jelinek
| Oral History (SNCC, AL & MS)
The Two Cows (MS) |
Clarence L. Johnson | Reflections on Growing Up In Greenwood ... |
James Kates |
June & August, 1964 (MS) |
Abdul Aziz Khaalis |
Journey To Prison (Freedom Rides) |
Lanny Kaufer | UCSB SCOPE Project 1965 (Sussex County, VA) |
Lonnie King Jr. | Oral History, 1967 (64-page transcript) |
Martin Luther King | Interview, Playboy Magazine |
Adam Kline | Greenwood, Mississippi |
Sherie Labedis | Fireball in the Night
(SC) |
Joyce Ladner |
The March on Washington |
Bernard Lafayette |
Remembrance of Selma Alabama — 1963 |
Candida Lall |
Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now (Freedom Rides)
Killing Sisyphus (Freedom Rides) |
Roslyn Garfield Lang | A Baltimore Girl Sits-In |
Charles Leck |
Riding on the Spirit of New Orleans (MS) |
Eric Lerner |
Selma Interview (AL) |
John Lewis |
Oral History (SNCC) |
Peter de Lissovoy |
Albany GA in 1963 (Southwest GA)
"Outside Agitator" and Other Terms of the Times (GA)
A Confrontation (GA)
Remembering C. B. King's Campaign for Congress (GA) |
Larry Mamiya | SNCC, SIM, and the Southwest Georgia Project (GA) |
William M. Mandel |
Execution in Virginia, 1951 |
Bob Mants | Don't Stick Your Nose in Other Folks Business (GA & AL) |
Betita Martinez | Liz is Betita: A SNCC Memory |
Joe McDomick | Registering to Vote in Louisiana |
Mike Miller |
Interview (SNCC, Alinsky)
The Agitator (MS) |
Sheila Michaels | How I Became An Oral
Historian |
Amzie Moore | Farewell to the N-Double-A (MS & SNCC) |
Peter Nemenyi | Oral History |
Martin Nicolaus | Mississippi Winter 1964-65 (Jackson & Issaquena Co.) |
Frances O'Brien (Fran) |
Faith and Activism (MS) | |
Gregory Orr |
On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama |
Dr. Gwendolyn M. Patton |
Insurgent Memories (Tuskegee, AL) |
Delores Miller Parks |
In Her Own Words [PDF] (St. Augustine, FL ~ ACCORD) |
Willie B. (Wazir) Peacock |
Oral History (SNCC, MS & AL)
Fighting for Freedom in the Mississippi Delta |
John Perdew |
Events in Dawson and Americus, Georgia
Americus, GA: Sheriff Fred Chapell and "Slappy"
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Alan Reich | In the New York SNCC Office |
Judy Richardson |
Oral History (SNCC, MD, GA, MS) |
Ron Ridenour |
Freedom Summer Orientation (MS)
On the Road to Freedom (MS)
Personal Diary, Moss Point Mississippi
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Dennis Roberts |
Stories of Southwest Georgia & C.B. King |
Priscilla McLeod Robinson |
My Story (VA & AL) |
Jimmy Rogers |
Oral History (SNCC, AL)
An Experience with Violence in Lowndes County, Alabama |
Avon Rollins Sr. |
August 28, 1963 — the March on Washington |
Larry Rubin |
A Walk in Holly Springs: 1964 (MS) |
Ruby Nell Sales |
Oral History (SNCC, AL) |
Danny Schechter |
Remembering the March on
Washington in 1963 |
Jeffrey H. Schwartz |
CORE's Freedom Summer — My Experiences in Louisiana |
[SCOPE Project] | Remembrances of SCOPE Project, 1965-66 |
Rick Sheviakov |
If I Ever Write Down the Story of My Life... (Freedom Rides) |
Michael Simmons |
Disturbing the Peace
Arkansas Roots and Consciousness |
Scott B. Smith | Peep-a-Boo — In the Graveyard (AL) |
Jonathan Steele |
Summer of Hate (MS) |
Jane Stembridge |
Interview (SNCC) |
Nancy Stoller | Bowling in Prince Georges County, Maryland |
Matt ("Flukey") Suarez | Oral History (CORE, LA & MS) |
Ralph Temple | St. Augustine, 1964 (FL ~ ACCORD) |
Peter Titelman | ... Define Self Through Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement |
Roy Torkington | Itta Bena and Elsewhere (MS) |
Brenda Travis | Oral History McComb MS and Elsewhere |
Rick Tuttle | The Brutal Winona, Mississippi Jail Beatings of June 1963 |
Johnnie Walker |
I am Johnnie Mae Walker (Hattiesburg, MS) |
Rita Walker |
Meeting the Freedom Workers (COFO, MS) |
Bob Weil | A Faulkner Tale (MS) |
Mark Weiss | Interview (MS) |
Annette Jones White | Freedom Movement Narrative (Albany, GA) |
Hattie & James White |
Interview (St. Augustine, FL) |
Grenville B. Whitman |
Mississippi Summer 1964 |
Jean Wiley |
Oral History (SNCC, AL) |
Bright Winn | Mrs. Magruder (MS) |
Bob Zellner |
The March on
Washington |
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