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[Note that this "Our Stories" section contains material looking back on the author's experiences, while the "Letters & Reports From the Field" section contains material written at the time.]

Everybody Can Serve  —  Martin Luther King

Author
 
Title/Description
 
Many Movement veterans Lighter Moments
   
Sandra Adickes History Lessons in Hattiesburg (MS)
Barbara Barnes Allen 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)
Randy Battle The Great Pool Jump... (Albany, GA)
Driving for Attorney C.B. King (GA)
Memories of Stokely Carmichael
An Education; A Memory of Stokely
Hunter Bear (John Salter) Interview (MS & NC)
A Magnolia Tale (MS)
Black-Belt Thunder (NC & SCEF)  
Bertie County, NC: Taking the 1700s into the 20th Century
Ellen Broms"High Yellow" (Freedom Rides)
Joan Browning Religion and Joining SNCC
Fatima Cortez-Todd Honoring Our Ancestors, Honoring Ourselves
Charles Bonner Interview (Selma, AL)
Cathy Cade My Family, the Movement, and Me (Albany, GA)  
My First Demonstration, Atlanta, 1962
Septima Clark Dismissal (NAACP, SC)
Charlie Cobb Interview (SNCC)
George Conway A Matter of Honor (St. Augustine, FL)
William "Meatball" Douthard I'll Never Forget Alabama Law (Gadsden, AL)  
Kathryn Fentress A Journey of the Spirit (St. Augustine, FL)
Bettie Mae Fikes   Interview (Selma, AL)
Jim Forman A Band of Brothers, A Circle of Trust (SNCC, Atlanta)
Jo Freeman Viewing Rosa Parks
Hardy Frye Narrative (SNCC, MS & AL)
Everyone Was a Leader (MS)
Joanne Gavin The Moon in Alabama is Big and Yellow
Maria GitinStory From Wilcox County, Alabama
Miriam Cohen Glickman 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
Linda HalpernThe Shooting of Silas McGhee (Greenwood, MS)
Fannie Lou Hamer Interview: Life in Mississippi (MFDP, MS)
Interview: Winona, Mississippi [PDF]
Bruce Hartford Interview (CORE & SCLC, AL & MS)
Albert Turner & the Rocking Chair (AL)
Margaret Herring    Narrative (Lauren McSurely)
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)
Don Jelinek Interview (SNCC, AL & MS)
The Two Cows (MS)
James Kates June & August, 1964 (MS)
Adam KlineGreenwood, Mississippi
Joyce Ladner The March on Washington
Candida Lall (Freedom Rides) Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now
Killing Sisyphus (Freedom Rides)
Sherie LabedisFireball in the Night (SC)
Charles Leck Riding on the Spirit of New Orleans (MS)
Eric Lerner Selma Interview (AL)
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
Betita Martinez   Liz is Betita: A SNCC Memory
Joe McDomick Registering to Vote in Louisiana
Mike MillerThe Agitator (MS)
Sheila MichaelsHow I Became An Oral Historian
Peter Nemenyi Interview
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)
Willie B. (Wazir) Peacock Interview (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"
Alan Reich In the New York SNCC Office
Judy Richardson Interview (SNCC, MD, GA, MS)
Avon Rollins Sr. August 28, 1963 — the March on Washington
Larry RubinA Walk in Holly Springs: 1964
Ron Ridenour Freedom Summer Orientation (MS)
On the Road to Freedom (MS)
Personal Diary, Moss Point Mississippi
Dennis Roberts Stories of Southwest Georgia & C.B. King
Priscilla McLeod Robinson My Story (VA & AL)
Jimmy Rogers Interview (SNCC, AL)
An Experience with Violence in Lowndes County, Alabama
Ruby Nell Sales Interview (SNCC, AL)
Danny Schechter Remembering the March on Washington in 1963
Jeffrey H. Schwartz CORE's Freedom Summer — My Experiences in Louisiana
Michael Simmons Disturbing the Peace
Scott B. SmithPeep-a-Boo — In the Graveyard (AL)
Jonathan Steele Summer of Hate (MS)
Nancy StollerBowling in Prince Georges County, Maryland
Matt ("Flukey") Suarez Interview (CORE, LA & MS)
Roy Torkington Itta Bena and Elsewhere (MS)
Rick TuttleThe 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 WeilA Faulkner Tale (MS)
Hattie & James White Interview (St. Augustine, FL)  
Grenville B. Whitman Mississippi Summer 1964
Jean Wiley Interview (SNCC, AL)
Bright WinnMrs. Magruder (MS)
Bob Zellner The March on Washington
   

See also:

History & Timeline: 1951-1968
The Southern Freedom Movement
Documents of the Southern Freedom Movement
Letters & Reports From the Field
List of Oral Histories collected by Shiela Michaels
Oral Histories [Search page] (Univ. Southern Mississippi)
Southern Oral History Project (Univerity North Carolina-Chapel Hill)


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