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Letters & Reports From the Field

This section contains letters written to family and friends by freedom workers in the field during 1951-1968. Also personally-signed memos, position-papers, field reports to headquarters, letters for publication & circulation, and so on.

See also:

History & Timeline: 1951-1968 — Descriptions of Movement events.
The Southern Freedom Movement — Articles by Movement veterans.
Discussions — Transcripts of later group discussions by veterans.
Our Stories — Memories, narratives & interviews of veterans.
Our Thoughts — Analyses and Commentaries by Movement veterans.
Documents — Movement publications, reports, organizing materials, strategy papers, etc.

1956 Impressions of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (AL) Fred Halstead
1956 Letter to Thurgood Marshall re Attack on NACCP   Mobile, NAACP
1957 Letter to Roy Wilkins re Little Rock Nine Daisy Bates
1961   Albany Freedom Ride Letters and Chronology (GA)   Joan Browning
1962 SNCC voter registration campaign (Albany GA) Author unknown
1962 Letter to Web Owens, May 24. (McComb, MS) Ella Baker
1962 Report re Freedom Rides, May 25 (Shreveport, LA) Dave Dennis
1962 Letter November 18. (SNCC, Albany GA) Faith Holsaert
1962 Weekly Report, SNCC, Dec 1st. (Southwest GA) John O'Neal
1963   My Participation in the Sit-ins (Greensboro, NC)   Hulda Taylor
1963 The Lee County Movement, A Bid For Freedom (GA)   Charles Wingfield
1963 Danville, VA (Police violence) Louis Nasper
1963 SNCC Field Reports SNCC
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
1963   Southwest Georgia Project Report/Proposals   Charles Sherrod
1963 Letter to Northern Supporters (MS) Fannie Lou Hamer
1963 Jackson Mississippi (Police harassment)   Ivanhoe Donaldson
1963 Letter to SNCC About Direct Action, (Fall 1963) Courtland Cox
1963 The Freedom Ballot for Governor (MS) Joan Bowman
1963 Integration in the Deep South: Death Goes On Miriam Cohen
1963? Memo to SNCC ExComm re Mississippi Project Bob Moses.
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
1964 Memories of Mississippi Freedom Summer (Multiple authors)
1964 Letters From Mississippi Volunteers
1964 COFO Freedom House Bombing, (Vicksburg, MS)   William Melish.
1964 Field Report, West Feliciana Parish Louisiana Sigal & Feingold
1964? Report From Amite County, Summer 1964? (MS) Marshall Ganz
1964I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Fannie Lou Hamer
1964Memo on Organizing Mike Miller
1964 Report From Madison & Rankin Counties, Fall? (MS) Mary Ann Shupenko
1964 Report From Marshal County (MS) Larry Rubin
1965 Mississippi Letter, re Freedom Summer, 1964. (26-pgs)   Stephen Bingham
1965 Contact (Selma) Charles Fager
1965   The School Boycott, Moultrie, GA Herman Kitchen
1965New Orleans Community Organizers — Report Matt Suarez
1965 The Stench of Freedom (Selma) Ralph Featherstone
1965 Stokely's Speech Class Jane Stembridge
1965? Position Paper: Funds-Sources & Staff Salaries   Joanne Gavin
1965 A Reflective Look (Julian Bond's Campaign) (GA)   Charlie Cobb
1965 Letter From Movement Boot Camp  
Letter From Wilcox County, AL (AL)
Maria Gitin
1965 Letter From a SCOPE Volunteer (GA)   Willy Leventhal
1965 Jackson City Jail (MS) James Kates
1965   Gulfport, MS. Report & Analysis   Sam Walker
1965 Letter to DoJ re Denial of Voting Rights James Kolb
1965 Personal Report From the Arkansas Project Myrtle Glascoe
1965 Letter From Lowndes County (AL) Stokely Carmichael
1965Notes on Rural Organizing Charles McLaurin
1965 To Whom This May Concern (MS) Mrs. Willie M. Griggs
1965 Letter From Natchez, MS (July)   Jim [lastname?]
1966 Letter Describing Medgar Evers (MS)   John Salter
1966 Lowndes County Election Fraud Gwen Patton
1967 Dear Staff (To SNCC)   Fay (no last name)
1967 Letter on Role of Women Fay Bellamy

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