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
1964	Memo on Organizing	Mike Miller (SNCC) [PDF]
1964	I'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
1965	New 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
1965	Notes 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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