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Letters & Reports From the Field

Letters written to family and friends from freedom workers in the field. Also personally-signed memos, position-papers, field reports to headquarters, diary entries, and publications written during the struggle. (See Our Stories and Our Thoughts for retrospective pieces written later.)

See also:
      History & Timeline: 1951-1968
      The Southern Freedom Movement
      Documents of the Southern Freedom Movement

1961   Albany Freedom Ride Letters and Chronology (Georgia)   Joan Browning
1963   My Participation in the Sit-ins (Greensboro)   Hulda Beth Taylor
1963 Danville, VA (Police violence) Louis Nasper
1963 SNCC Field Reports SNCC [PDF]
1963 Gadsden, AL (The Gadsden Movement) Eric Rainey
1963   Journal (Southwest Georgia)   Dennis Roberts
1963 Letter From Albany, GA (Aug. 1963) Miriam Cohen
1963 Letter to Don Harris' Father re Jailed Son Julian Bond [PDF]
1963   Southwest Georgia Project Report/Proposals   Charles Sherrod
1963 Letter from Fannie Lou Hamer (MS) To northern supporters. [PDF]
1963 Jackson, MS (Police harassment)   Ivanhoe Donaldson
1963 The Freedom Ballot for Governor (MS) Joan Bowman
1963 Integration in the Deep South: Death Goes On Miriam Cohen
1964 Freedom Ring Encircles Ticket Booth (New Orleans)   Doris Castle
1964 Why I Am Going to Mississippi Chude Allen
1964 Three Letters From a Freedom School Teacher (MS)   Chude Allen
1964 Letter From Jim Boebel (MS)   Jim Boebel [PDF]
1964 Memories of Mississippi Freedom Summer (Multiple authors)
1964 Letters From Mississippi Volunteers
1964Memo on Organizing Mike Miller (SNCC) [PDF]
1964I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Fannie Lou Hamer
1965 Contact (Selma) Charles Fager
1965   The School Boycott, Moultrie, GA Herman Kitchen
1965New Orleans Community Organizers — Report Matt Suarez [PDF]
1965 The Stench of Freedom (Selma) Ralph Featherstone
1965 Stokely's Speech Class Jane Stembridge
1965? Position Paper: Funds-Sources & Staff Salaries   Joanne Gavin (SNCC) [PDF]
1965 A Reflective Look (Julian Bond's Campaign) (GA)   Charlie Cobb [PDF]
1965 Letter From Movement Boot Camp  
Letter From Wilcox County, AL (AL)
Maria Gitin (SCOPE)
1965 Letter From a SCOPE Volunteer (GA)   Willy Siegel Leventhal
1965 Jackson City Jail (MS) James Kates
1965   Gulfport, MS. Report & Analysis   Sam Walker [PDF]
1965 Personal Report From the Arkansas Project Myrtle Glascoe
1965 Letter From Lowndes County (AL) Stokely Carmichael
1965Notes on Rural Organizing Charles McLaurin (SNCC)
1965 To Whom This May Concern (MS) Mrs. Willie M. Griggs
1965 Letter From Natchez, MS (July)   Jim [lastname?] [PDF]
1966 Lowndes County Election Fraud Gwen Patton [PDF]

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