Women in the Freedom Movement
Information Sources on this Website

Tributes to Women of the Freedom Movement

Veterans Roll Call (Includes statements and contact info from many women veterans)

Our Stories, Narratives, Interviews & Memories (Includes stories from the following:)

Sandra Adickes	History Lessons in Hattiesburg (MS)
Barbara Barnes Allen	Interview (St. Augustine, FL)
Chude Pam Parker Allen	Why I Am Going to Mississippi Would You Marry One? (MS)   Loneliness in the Circle of Trust (MS) Watching the Iris Grow (MS)
Joan Browning	Albany Freedom Ride Letters and Chronology (GA) Religion and Joining SNCC
Fatima Cortez	Honoring Our Ancestors, Honoring Ourselves
Betty Fikes & Charles Bonner	Interview (Selma, AL)
Cathy Cade	My Family, the Movement, and Me (Albany, GA)
Kathryn Fentress	A Journey of the Spirit (St. Augustine, FL)
Jo Freeman	Viewing Rosa Parks
Joann Gavin	The Moon in Alabama is Big and Yellow
Maria Gitin	Letter From Movement Boot Camp Letter From Wilcox County, Alabama
Miriam (Cohen) Glickman	Integration in the Deep South: Death Goes On — 1963 Vietnam War Protest, 1965
Heather Gray	A Month of Infamy 38 Years Ago (MS)
Margaret Herring	Narrative (Lauren McSurely)
Sheila Michaels	How I Became An Oral Historian
Fran O'Brien	Faith and Activism (MS)
Gwen Patton	Insurgent Memories (Tuskegee, AL)
Judy Richardson	Interview (SNCC, MD, GA, MS)
Priscilla McLeod Robinson	My Story (VA & AL)
Ruby Sales	Interview (SNCC, AL)
Rita Walker	Meeting the Freedom Workers (COFO, MS)
Hattie & James White	Interview (St. Augustine, FL)
Gren Whitman	Mississippi Summer 1964
Jean Wiley	Interview (SNCC, AL)

The Freedom Movement Stories We Always Wanted To Tell (includes short stories from many women)

Lighter Moments (Includes vignettes from many women)

Discussions (Although women have participated in all the discussions, these might be of particular interest.)

Women & Men in the Freedom Movement
Exchange: Three White Women Students at Spelman, 1962-1964    

Our Thoughts (Includes articles & commentaries from the following women:)

I Owe a Debt of Gratitude to the Civil Rights Movement	Daphne Muse	2010
In the Attics of My Mind	Casey Hayden	2010
SNCC, Fifty Years Later	Marian Wright Edelman	2010
Generational Narrative by a Black Woman on Senator Kennedy	Ruby Sales	2009
Why Struggle? Why Care?	Chude Allen	2005
Religion and the 2004 Election	Sales & Hartford	2004
Lowndes County Election Fraud	Gwen Patton	1966

Documents of the Southern Freedom Movement (Includes the following documents by or related to women:)

1960	Bigger Than a Hamburger, Ella Baker
1964	Fannie Lou Hamer's Testimony at Democratic Convention
1964	Women in the Movement, SNCC Position Paper
1966	Stresses of the White Female Worker in CRM, Dr. Alvin Poussaint [PDF]
1963	Letter from Fannie Lou Hamer A letter from Mrs. Hamer to SNCC supporters in the North. [PDF]

Poems (Includes poems from the following:)

Chude Pam Allen (Pam Parker)
Joan Dresner Bernstein
Nina Boal
Joyce Brown
Fatima Cortez-Todd
Casey Hayden
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner
Jane Stembridge
Molly Lynn Watt