Civil Rights Movement
Louisiana Movement Resources

This page provides links to Civil Rights Movement Archive resources that have significant content related to the Freedom Struggle in Georgia.

Contents:
Photos
CRMA History Articles
Original Documents, Field Reports & Letters
Interviews, Stories & Oral-Histories
Commentaries & Analyses by Movement Veterans
Group Discussions by Movement Veterans
Film, Video and Audio

Louisiana Movement: Photos

The Louisiana Movement

Louisiana Movement: CRMA History Articles

Baton Rouge Bus Boycott (June)
Baton Rouge Sit-ins & Student Strike (Mar-April)
New Orleans Merchant Boycotts & Sit-ins (1960-1963)
New Orleans School Desgregation (Nov)
Baton Rouge Student Protests (Dec 1961 - Jan 1962)
"Criminal Anarchy" in Louisiana (Feb)
Man-Hunt in Plaquemine LA (Aug-Sept)
Freedom March in New Orleans (Sept)
Deacons for Defense & Justice (July)
Confronting the Klan in Bogalusa With Nonviolence & Self-Defense (Jan-June)
Clarence Triggs Murdered (Jul)
Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March (Aug)

Louisiana Movement: Documents, Field Reports & Letters

Louisiana Literacy Tests & Voter Applications

General, State-Wide & Misc.

1963 Letter to Ronnie Moore of CORE re Louisiana literacy test, Jack Minnis, VEP. January 17 1963

1963 Louisiana Story 1963, CORE pamphlet. James Farmer.

1963 Proposed Voter Education Project for Louisiana: Rural and North, November, CORE. November 1963.

63? 64? Negro Voting in Louisiana, Baton Rouge Committee on Registration Education. Undated (probably 1963 or 1964)

1/64 Field report, re Louisiana voter registration. Ronnie Moore, CORE

5/64 Letter to Ronnie Moore, re Louisiana summer project. Marcia (no lastname), CORE

5/64 Letter to, CORE leader James McCain re Louisiana voter registration. Unsigned, CORE

5/64 Letter to Ronnie Moore, re parishes for Louisiana summer project. Michael (Lesser?), CORE

6/64 Field Report, West Feliciana Parish Louisiana. Mimi Feingold, CORE

7/64 A Special Report on the Jonesboro, Louisiana, Daniel Mitchell, CORE

1964 Louisiana Parishes Population Report, CORE Southern Regional Office Research Department. November 19

1964? Louisiana Citizenship Program, CORE.

1965? Louisiana College Campus Report, CORE Southern Regional Office. Undated, probably 1965

1965? CORE Radio Rules & Codes (Louisiana)

1965 CORE ~ Louisiana in Brief. 14-page report/analysis.

1965 CORE Louisiana voter registration statistics 1965

1965 Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations, CORE Mississippi Field Staff. (Explains COFO to Louisiana CORE Staff for January 1965 Conference)

1965 Articles of Incorporation, Deacons of Defense & Justice, Louisiana, March.

1965 Memo re: CORE General Procedures Louisiana, J. Rollins, CORE. June, 1965

1965 Louisiana CORE Newsletter, Unsigned, CORE. July 1965

1968 Statement on arrest and persecution H. Rap Brown in Louisiana, signed by many groups and individuals, SNCC. March,

Summer Projects

11/63 Letter to national CORE leaders Jim McCain and Marvin Rich re Mississippi situation and ideas for the summer of 1964, Dave Dennis, CORE. November 18, 1963.

May? Louisiana Summer Project, 1964, unsigned CORE.

May? Application Form for Field Worker in CORE Task Force

May Fatima Cortez's Questionnaire
6/64 Louisiana Summer Task Force preliminary volunteer list, CORE Southern Regional Office.

1964 Vital Statistics & Miscellaneous Facts for CORE's Louisiana summer project, Mimi Feingold, CORE. May 1964

64? 65? CORE Freedom Schools Brochure, undated, probably 1964 or 1965.

6/64? Schedule: The Long Hot Summer, Louisiana, 1964, CORE Southern Regional Office.

6/64 Field Report, West Feliciana Parish Louisiana, Ronnie Sigal & Mimi Feingold, CORE.

7/64? Report from Pointe Coupee Parish, Peggy Ewan, Catherine Cortex, Sharon Burger, CORE

1964 Louisiana — Summer 1964, the Students Report to Their Home Towns. CORE Pamphlet. (Published accounts from CORE's summer project in Louisiana)

10/64 List of subjects for teaching, Unsigned, CORE. October 27 1964
5/65? Format of Louisiana Summer Project, undated possibly May, 1965

6/65?? Questions Concerning Local and Parish ASC Committees..., (LA). Unsigned CORE. Undated (probably May or June 1965)

6/65 CORE Community Action Guide, June 1965

6/65 Community Organization Discussion Outline, unsigned, CORE, 1965

6/65 Outline for Weekly Field Report, Unsigned, CORE

6/65 CORE summer project educational program workshop, Unsigned, CORE.

6/65 Notes and Guidelines on News, Public Relations, Unsigned, CORE. 6/65 1965

6/65 Questions for Discussion, Political Awareness Workshop. Unsigned, CORE.

6/65 CORE Fact Sheet for Enforcement of the Fair Employment
6/65 Unfair employment practices complaint, Unsigned, CORE.

6/65 CORE Summer Project Orientation — Educational Program Workshop

6/65 CORE contact list of Louisiana ASCS offices

6/65 CORE workshops activities, Unsigned, CORE.

6/65 CORE tracking arrests and legal issues (form), Unsigned, CORE.

7/65? Abraham Lincoln ~ John F. Kennedy, comparison (Louisiana freedom school teaching material). Unsigned CORE

8/65 CORE Freedom News (newsletter, Madison Parish Louisiana), August 6 1965

8/65 Minden Freedom Rally. Unsigned, CORE flyer. August 11, 1965

New Orleans

1960 Constitution of New Orleans CORE, September 1960

1964 New Orleans NAACP Newsletter, January

1964 New Orleans NAACP Newsletter, January

1964 CORE Orleans Parish Voter Registration Project, Steven Rubin, New Orleans CORE. March 27 1964

1964 Petition to Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, Citizens Committee, New Orleans. May 28 1964.

1964 CORE: Letters to Loews theaters re segregation, Oretha Castle, New Orleans CORE

1964 Petition to Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, Citizens Committee, New Orleans. May 28 1964.

1964 New Orleans CORE Voter Registration Instructions, undated, assumed to be 1964

1964 Freedom Ring Encircles Ticket Booth (New Orleans) Doris Castle, CORE

1965 Tentative Program for New Orleans CORE, January 1965

1965 Parish of Orleans legal retainer, Lolis Elie. June, 1965

1965 CORE 1965 (New Orleans), Matt Suarez.

???? New Orleans CORE Voter Registration Report Weekly Tabulation, Nancy Herman & Doratha Smith, New Orleans CORE. Undated.

???? New Orleans CORE Project. Undated letter. (Possibly sent to members of community groups)

Baton Rouge

1960 All Baton Rougeans Have a Stack in Baton Rouge, Unsigned, FOA. 1960

1961 It Happened in Baton Rouge, U.S.A., Major Johns and Ronnie Moore. CORE pamphlet.

63? 64? Negro Voting in Louisiana, Baton Rouge Committee on Registration Education. Undated (probably 1963 or 1964)

Bogalusa

1965 Why We Protest, A.Z. Young, Bogalusa Civic & Voter League. Undated 1965.

1965 Summary of Incidents in Bogalusa, Lousisiana, April 7-9 1965

1965 It's Going to be an Expensive Summer..., CORE, Bogalusa, LA fund-appeal letter.

1965 Bogalusa, Lousiana, Incident Summary, January 25 - February 21 1965

1965 Jonesboro-Bogalusa Project, Lawrence chapter of CORE, March 1965.

1965 Bogalusa, Lousiana, Incident Summary, January 28 - July 1 1965.

Misc.

1965 Questions for Greenwood Acres, unsigned CORE flyer from Shreveport LA, July 8 1965

1965 Minden Freedom Rally, unsigned CORE flyer from Minden LA, August 6 1965

1965 Statement of Vernon Smith, regarding violence in Ferriday, LA. November 11 1965

Louisiana Movement: Interviews, Stories & Oral-Histories

Herman Carter(?) Interview of CORE SSOC member in Baton Rouge LA by #KZSU Project South (Stanford University), Summer 1965.

Rev. Joe Carter Interview re Registering to vote in Louisiana

Raphael Cassimere A Civil Rights Activist Revisits the Sixties Movement at UNO, 2003.

Interview re New Orleans. 2012

Dion Diamond Interview by David Cline, re Freedom Rides, Louisiana, Mississippi (2015) Video + bio & metadata

George Driesen A Volunteer for Justice: Working for Civil Rights in Louisiana, 1966

Mimi Feingold Real Interview (Freedom Rides, Louisiana)

Interview with Ron Bridgeforth 2018

Interview by high school students re CORE, Freedom Rides & Louisiana. 2020 PDF transcript Video

Hicks family Interview by Joseph Mosnier re CORE, Deacons for Defense, & Bogalusa LA movement (2011)
Jenkins family Interview by Joseph Mosnier, re Bogalusa LA Movement (2011) Video + bio & metadata

Gayle Jenkins Interview by Mimi Feingold (Bogalusa, LA) (1967)

Roy Torkington Volunteer: Mississippi 1964 & Louisiana 1965 (2018)

Joe McDomick Registering to Vote in Louisiana

Meg Redden Freedom Summer ~ A Memoir (LA)

Jeffrey Schwartz CORE's Freedom Summer — My Experiences in Louisiana

Charles Sims Armed Defense (Bogalusa, LA) 1965

Jerome Smith Louisiana Story interview with Jerome Smith, CORE. 1964

Matt ("Flukey") Suarez Oral History (LA & MS)

A.Z. Young Interview by Mimi Feingold (Bogalusa, LA) (1967)

Louisiana Movement: Commentaries & Analyses by Movement Veterans

Post-1960s commentaries, thoughts, and analyses by Movement veterans regarding or referencing.

Harassment Didn't Stop Civil Rights Work Corinne Barnwell

The Bogalusa Lesson Bruce Hartford

Louisiana Movement: Group Discussions by Movement Veterans

Discussions, panels, and email threads about Louisiana by Freedom Movement veterans:

Louisiana & the Freedom Movement Experience 2021

Film, Video, & Audio

Films & documentaries, videos, and audio recordings related to Louisiana:

Dr. Mimi Real, Freedom Rider and CORE in Louisiana. Interviewed by high school students. 2020. 118min.

Louisiana Literacy Tests & Voter Applications

General, State-Wide & Misc.
1963	Letter to Ronnie Moore of CORE re Louisiana literacy test, Jack Minnis, VEP. January 17 1963
1963	Louisiana Story 1963, CORE pamphlet. James Farmer.
1963	Proposed Voter Education Project for Louisiana: Rural and North, November, CORE. November 1963.
63? 64?	Negro Voting in Louisiana, Baton Rouge Committee on Registration Education. Undated (probably 1963 or 1964)
1/64	Field report, re Louisiana voter registration. Ronnie Moore, CORE
5/64	Letter to Ronnie Moore, re Louisiana summer project. Marcia (no lastname), CORE
5/64	Letter to, CORE leader James McCain re Louisiana voter registration. Unsigned, CORE
5/64	Letter to Ronnie Moore, re parishes for Louisiana summer project. Michael (Lesser?), CORE
6/64	Field Report, West Feliciana Parish Louisiana. Mimi Feingold, CORE
7/64	A Special Report on the Jonesboro, Louisiana, Daniel Mitchell, CORE
1964	Louisiana Parishes Population Report, CORE Southern Regional Office Research Department. November 19
1964?	Louisiana Citizenship Program, CORE.
1965?	Louisiana College Campus Report, CORE Southern Regional Office. Undated, probably 1965
1965?	CORE Radio Rules & Codes (Louisiana)
1965	CORE ~ Louisiana in Brief. 14-page report/analysis.
1965	CORE Louisiana voter registration statistics 1965
1965	Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations, CORE Mississippi Field Staff. (Explains COFO to Louisiana CORE Staff for January 1965 Conference)
1965	Articles of Incorporation, Deacons of Defense & Justice, Louisiana, March.
1965	Memo re: CORE General Procedures Louisiana, J. Rollins, CORE. June, 1965
1965	Louisiana CORE Newsletter, Unsigned, CORE. July 1965
1968	Statement on arrest and persecution H. Rap Brown in Louisiana, signed by many groups and individuals, SNCC. March,
Summer Projects
11/63	Letter to national CORE leaders Jim McCain and Marvin Rich re Mississippi situation and ideas for the summer of 1964, Dave Dennis, CORE. November 18, 1963.
May?	Louisiana Summer Project, 1964, unsigned CORE.
May?	Application Form for Field Worker in CORE Task Force
May	Fatima Cortez's Questionnaire
6/64	Louisiana Summer Task Force preliminary volunteer list, CORE Southern Regional Office.
1964	Vital Statistics & Miscellaneous Facts for CORE's Louisiana summer project, Mimi Feingold, CORE. May 1964
64? 65?	CORE Freedom Schools Brochure, undated, probably 1964 or 1965.
6/64?	Schedule: The Long Hot Summer, Louisiana, 1964, CORE Southern Regional Office.
6/64	Field Report, West Feliciana Parish Louisiana, Ronnie Sigal & Mimi Feingold, CORE.
7/64?	Report from Pointe Coupee Parish, Peggy Ewan, Catherine Cortex, Sharon Burger, CORE
1964	Louisiana — Summer 1964, the Students Report to Their Home Towns. CORE Pamphlet. (Published accounts from CORE's summer project in Louisiana)
10/64	List of subjects for teaching, Unsigned, CORE. October 27 1964
5/65?	Format of Louisiana Summer Project, undated possibly May, 1965
6/65??	Questions Concerning Local and Parish ASC Committees..., (LA). Unsigned CORE. Undated (probably May or June 1965)
6/65	CORE Community Action Guide, June 1965
6/65	Community Organization Discussion Outline, unsigned, CORE, 1965
6/65	Outline for Weekly Field Report, Unsigned, CORE
6/65	CORE summer project educational program workshop, Unsigned, CORE.
6/65	Notes and Guidelines on News, Public Relations, Unsigned, CORE. 6/65 1965
6/65	Questions for Discussion, Political Awareness Workshop. Unsigned, CORE.
6/65	CORE Fact Sheet for Enforcement of the Fair Employment
6/65	Unfair employment practices complaint, Unsigned, CORE.
6/65	CORE Summer Project Orientation — Educational Program Workshop
6/65	CORE contact list of Louisiana ASCS offices
6/65	CORE workshops activities, Unsigned, CORE.
6/65	CORE tracking arrests and legal issues (form), Unsigned, CORE.
7/65?	Abraham Lincoln ~ John F. Kennedy, comparison (Louisiana freedom school teaching material). Unsigned CORE
8/65	CORE Freedom News (newsletter, Madison Parish Louisiana), August 6 1965
8/65	Minden Freedom Rally. Unsigned, CORE flyer. August 11, 1965
New Orleans
1960	Constitution of New Orleans CORE, September 1960
1964	New Orleans NAACP Newsletter, January
1964	New Orleans NAACP Newsletter, January
1964	CORE Orleans Parish Voter Registration Project, Steven Rubin, New Orleans CORE. March 27 1964
1964	Petition to Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, Citizens Committee, New Orleans. May 28 1964.
1964	CORE: Letters to Loews theaters re segregation, Oretha Castle, New Orleans CORE
1964	Petition to Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, Citizens Committee, New Orleans. May 28 1964.
1964	New Orleans CORE Voter Registration Instructions, undated, assumed to be 1964
1964	Freedom Ring Encircles Ticket Booth (New Orleans) Doris Castle, CORE
1965	Tentative Program for New Orleans CORE, January 1965
1965	Parish of Orleans legal retainer, Lolis Elie. June, 1965
1965	CORE 1965 (New Orleans), Matt Suarez.
????	New Orleans CORE Voter Registration Report Weekly Tabulation, Nancy Herman & Doratha Smith, New Orleans CORE. Undated.
????	New Orleans CORE Project. Undated letter. (Possibly sent to members of community groups)
Baton Rouge
1960	All Baton Rougeans Have a Stack in Baton Rouge, Unsigned, FOA. 1960
1961	It Happened in Baton Rouge, U.S.A., Major Johns and Ronnie Moore. CORE pamphlet.
63? 64?	Negro Voting in Louisiana, Baton Rouge Committee on Registration Education. Undated (probably 1963 or 1964)
Bogalusa
1965	Why We Protest, A.Z. Young, Bogalusa Civic & Voter League. Undated 1965.
1965	Summary of Incidents in Bogalusa, Lousisiana, April 7-9 1965
1965	It's Going to be an Expensive Summer..., CORE, Bogalusa, LA fund-appeal letter.
1965	Bogalusa, Lousiana, Incident Summary, January 25 - February 21 1965
1965	Jonesboro-Bogalusa Project, Lawrence chapter of CORE, March 1965.
1965	Bogalusa, Lousiana, Incident Summary, January 28 - July 1 1965.
Misc.
1965	Questions for Greenwood Acres, unsigned CORE flyer from Shreveport LA, July 8 1965
1965	Minden Freedom Rally, unsigned CORE flyer from Minden LA, August 6 1965
1965	Statement of Vernon Smith, regarding violence in Ferriday, LA. November 11 1965

Herman Carter(?)	Interview of CORE SSOC member in Baton Rouge LA by #KZSU Project South (Stanford University), Summer 1965.
Rev. Joe Carter	Interview re Registering to vote in Louisiana
Raphael Cassimere	A Civil Rights Activist Revisits the Sixties Movement at UNO, 2003.
	Interview re New Orleans. 2012
Dion Diamond	Interview by David Cline, re Freedom Rides, Louisiana, Mississippi (2015) Video + bio & metadata
George Driesen	A Volunteer for Justice: Working for Civil Rights in Louisiana, 1966
Mimi Feingold Real	Interview (Freedom Rides, Louisiana)
	Interview with Ron Bridgeforth 2018
	Interview by high school students re CORE, Freedom Rides & Louisiana. 2020 PDF transcript Video
Hicks family	Interview by Joseph Mosnier re CORE, Deacons for Defense, & Bogalusa LA movement (2011)
Jenkins family	Interview by Joseph Mosnier, re Bogalusa LA Movement (2011) Video + bio & metadata

Gayle Jenkins	Interview by Mimi Feingold (Bogalusa, LA) (1967)
Roy Torkington	Volunteer: Mississippi 1964 & Louisiana 1965 (2018)
Joe McDomick	Registering to Vote in Louisiana
Meg Redden	Freedom Summer ~ A Memoir (LA)
Jeffrey Schwartz	CORE's Freedom Summer — My Experiences in Louisiana
Charles Sims	Armed Defense (Bogalusa, LA) 1965
Jerome Smith	Louisiana Story interview with Jerome Smith, CORE. 1964
Matt ("Flukey") Suarez	Oral History (LA & MS)
A.Z. Young	Interview by Mimi Feingold (Bogalusa, LA) (1967)

Harassment Didn't Stop Civil Rights Work	Corinne Barnwell
The Bogalusa Lesson	Bruce Hartford

Civil Rights Movement Louisiana Movement Resources