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SNCC Digital Gateway. SNCC Legacy Project & Duke University. tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation.Teaching for Change and Zinn Education Project. Provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world by promoting and supporting the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country.
The SNCC Legacy Project (SLP). SLP was begun to preserve and extend SNCC's legacy. Although SNCC the organization no longer exists, we believe that its legacy continues and needs to be brought forward in ways that continue the struggle for freedom, justice and liberty.
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Empowering the next generation, passing it on to carry it on by preserving the history of the Mississippi Movement.
Chicago SNCC History Project. Tells the Stories of Chicago Area Friends of SNCC (CAFSNCC), its relationship to SNCC, it's pivotal role in shaping the fight for freedom in Chicago between 1960-1965, and preserves that history as a legacy for the young people who are continuing the fight for freedom, justice and peace.
SCOPE 50. Preserving Civil Rights and The Story of Voting. Website of SCLC/SCOPE project activists.
The Spirit of Freedom. CD $25. A vocal duet by award winning vocalist LaRhonda Steele and Karen Haberman Trusty (SNCC, 1963-1964). This CD is a collection of modern versions of Freedom Songs and spoken word pieces about SNCC and its significance for today. "These songs are the Battle Cry against the oppression of my people. I am deeply moved by this project and its relevance," LaRhonda Steele. To order, email: ktobas@gmail.com.
Organizing Our Strength for Tomorrow: A Call to Gather on SNCC's 60th Anniversary. Washington, DC. April 16-19, 2020. For details and registration information: SNCC 60th Anniversary Conference.
Movement art: If you are aware of any works of art related to the Freedom Movement such as paintings, drawings, murals, statues, and so on, please take a look at our Civil Rights Movement Art page to see if we already have an image of it in our collection. If it isn't included in our collection please email us an image we can post, or a weblink, or some other information that we can use. Thanks.
Movement Materials: Please continue to send us documents, letters, reports, stories, and other Southern Freedom Movement materials from the period 1951-1968.
1963 Field Director Faces Death Penalty, copy of CORE press release, Americus, GA. August 22, 1963. 1965 Report re: Report of the Convention Fundraising Committee, unsigned CORE. Undated 1965 (probably May or June) 1965 Debt of National CORE, 1965, unsigned CORE. Undated, probably prepared for convention in June) 1965 Memo re: Complaints Against Telephone Company and FBI, unsigned CORE. Undated 1965 1965 Bloody Sunday incidents and response, Unsigned, SNCC. March 8, 1965 1965 A Few Recent Deaths in Alabama, Unsigned, SNCC. March 14, 1965 1965 Questions Concerning Local and Parish ASC Committees..., (LA). Unsigned CORE. Undated (probably May or June 1965) 1965 Note to Dan, re ASCS elections (LA). Herman "Slick" Carter, CORE. Undated (probably May or June 1965) 1965 Memo re Louisianna ASCS parish elections, Herman "Slick" Carter, CORE. Undated 1965 (probably June or July) 1965 Young America: Looking Ahead to 1966, letter to a SNCC worker, Jon Steinberg. September 28, 1965 1965 Report on Mississippi, Unsigned MFDP. October 29, 1965 1967? SNCC San Francisco Office Raided, Unsigned, SNCC. Undated (possibly 1967) 1967 Facts About the TSU Five and Their Indictment For Murder and ..., Unsigned, SNCC. Undated 1967 (probably May or June)
4/16/63 SNCC DOJ protects negroes right to vote 2/1/64 SNCC SNCC press releases:
Rights Demonstrators Enjoined in Hattiesburg Vote Drive
SNCC Worker Convicted on Contributing Charges2/1/64 SNCC SNCC press releases:
No Clues Found in Negro's Murder
Greenwood Race Cases Set3/20/64 SNCC Mississippi Summer Project Launched 4/13/64 DM Statement from Ministers Outside the Hattiesburg Jail 5/16/64 SNCC SNCC Worker Reports Reign of Terror in Mississippi (re Natchez) 5/27/64 SNCC Mississippi Sumer Project to Begin in July Publications
Mississippi Free Press issues:
March 2, 1963, Bias May Halt Job Training, Courts asked to desegregate public schools March 9, 1963, Federal protection demanded after attemted killing, Parents ask to open Jackson's schools March 16, 1963, Greenwood Citizens Attempt to Register, Leake County Parents File Desegregation Suit March 23, 1963, Continued illegal segregation despite orders, Action to make segregation expensive March 30, 1963, 125,000 school children skip lunch due to lack of funding, Mississippi students denied information on free lunches April 6, 1963, Hundreds ask for voting rights in Greenwood, Greenvile Hospital maintains inadequate accomodations April 13, 1963, Greenwood Leaders Disappointed by Justice Dept. Kennedy sends civil rights bill to congress April 20, 1963, Diggs (D-MI) to See Pres. About Delta Situation, 4 Citizens Report Repisals After Seeking Registration April 27, 1963, Kennedy refuses to cut off federal funds to MS, More Deltans Apply Daily at Courthouse *New Section*
Documents: Los Angeles CA Protests, 1963-1964Background: Northern Residential Segregation
Background: Northern Defacto School Segregation
Background: Northern Job Discrimination
Background: Northern Police Malpractice & Brutality
???? LAUSD Dilworth Act Relating to Communist-Party Membership, school board's legal basis for "Loyalty Oath." 1963 CORE Welcome to CORE, flyer for new members. Undated 1963 1963 CORE Southwest Realty Board Supports Segregation, CORE flyer ("southwest" refers to area of L.A. county). Undated 1963 1963 CORE Note to Bruin CORE re White-Only job notice at sorority, anonymous. Undated (probably fall 1963) 1963 CORE Bruin CORE recruitment flyer, unsigned, undated (probably fall or winter 1963) 1963 CORE Anti-Bruin CORE flyer, unsigned. Undated (probably fall or winter 1963) 1963 CORE Segregated Schools in Los Angeles, 32-page pamphlet. Kenneth Fry, CORE Education Committee. Undated (probably fall of 1963) 1963? NYC What You Should Know to Get Rid of Rats, New York City Dept. of Health. Undated (possibly 1963) 1963 CORE Press release about real estate tycoon Don Wilson, unsigned LA CORE. June 28 1963 1963 CORE Chief Parker resign! Mother's Day party flyer, unsigned. May 9 1963 1963 CORE LA CORE organizing calendar July 1963 1963 CORE Press release protesting Torrance town curfew to block protests,unsigned LA CORE. July 10 1963 1963 CORE So You Are Willing to Be Arrested, LA CORE arrestee form. Undated (probably September 1963) 1963 CORE Duties of Monitors, protest instructions. Unsigned LA CORE. Undated (probably Fall 1963) 1963 CORE Yes, There IS School Segregation Here flyer. LA CORE. September 19 1963 1963 CORE Flyer for Fourth Study-In, unsigned CORE. October 24 1963 1963 CORE Don't Support Job Discrimination, unsigned CORE (later N-VAC) flyer against Wichstand drive-in. December 1963 1964 CORE Chief Parker Resign! flyer opposing police brutality & malpractice. Unsigned CORE. May 5 1964 1964 N-VAC Shall We Vote on Democracy???, unsigned N-VAC. Undated, probably October 1964 1964 N-VAC Excerpt from Focus on Cambridge by Gloria Richardson. Unsigned N-VAC background info re Prop-14 boycott call. Undated, probably October 1964 1964 N-VAC Notes on the History of the Non-Violent Action Committee, Bruce Hartford (N-VAC), November 1964 1965 N-VAC Political Program, unsigned N-VAC. Undated 1965 1965 N-VAC Boycott, Baby, Boycott: N-VAC 16 Point Program, Unsigned. Undated 1965 1963 CORE Report on All Night Sit-in at Board of Education, Bruce Hartford, N-VAC/Bruin CORE. November 2 1963 1963 LAUSD Response mailing to protesters, Georgiana Hardy, President BoE. November 7 1963 1963 UCRC Act Now! Flyer against school segregation. Unsigned UCRC. Undated (probably 1963) 1963 UCRC Flyer against school segregation. Unsigned UCRC. Undated (probably 1963 1964 CORE Safeway negotiations with CORE, E.A. Saunders, Safeway, press-release by L.A. CORE. January 30 1964 1964 CORE Safeway Gives in to CORE's Demands, membership bulletin. Unsigned L.A. CORE. February 1 1964 1964 UCRC Dear Friend mailing re agreement with Ralph's Stores, Earl Walter, UCRC. March 17 1964 1964 UCRC Dear Friend mailing re negotiations and action against Thriftymart, Earl Walter, UCRC. April 27 1964 1964 UCRC Boycott Thriftymart Stores flyer, unsigned UCRC. April 29 1964 1964 UCRC Dear Friend mailing re shop-ins and protests against Thriftymart Stores, Brookins & Walter, UCRC. July 13 1964
William Hansen, SNCC Arkansas field report 10/23-11/1/62
Quenton E. Baker Oral-History Interview (Chapel Hill NC) Tom Gaither Oral History Interview (CORE) Bill Hansen (SNCC) Arkansas SNCC field reports (Arkansas Historical Quarterly)
No new articles added this month
Jean Wiley: A Life Well Lived in a Liberated State of Mind Daphne Muse
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
J. Charles Jones Jean Wiley
Language & Acronyms Freedom Summer course syllabus, Dr. Nicole Burrowes & Dr. La TaSha Levy
PDF Version Word Version (editable)
February 12, 1963 by Jacqueline Woodson
No new photos added this month
BOOKS:
FILM & VIDEO:"Troublemaker" Memories of the Freedom Movement, by Bruce Hartford. Westwind Writers, 2019. Personal boots-on-the-ground memoir of four years service in the American Civil Rights Movement, 1963-1967.
Southern White Girl Seeks Social Change: A Twentieth Century Memoir, by Nancy Stoller. Bright Stuff, 2019. A memoir from the dawn of SNCC, women's liberation, and young people who "de-segregated" the US, each body on the line, every eye on the prize.
Acts of Resistance: A Freedom Rider Looks Back on the Civil Rights Movement, by Judith Frieze Wright. Apple Bay Publishing, 2019. A memoir of one person's experience in Mississippi during the early sixties.
Mississippi Reckoning, (novel) by Mitchell Zimmerman. Amazon/Kindle Direct Publishing 2019. The story of a despairing man's pursuit of justice for the victims of segregationist brutality, set against a sweeping backdrop of white supremacy rampant and the civil rights struggles of the 1940s and 1960s.
Crusader Without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr, by L.D. Reddick and Derryn Moten. Reissued by New South Books, 2018. First biography of Dr. King originally written in 1959 and now reissued.
Mississippi's Exiled Daughter, by Brenda Travis with John Obee. Story of Brenda Travis, whose 1961 arrest as a teenager helped galvanize opposition to racial discrimination in Mississippi. New South Books, June 2018.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964: A History in Documents, by James P. Marshall. Louisiana State University Press, 2018. Freedom Movement veteran traces through government documents the Kennedy Administration's response to the Mississippi Movement.
Hope's Kids: A Voting Rights Summer, by Alan Venable. One Monkey Books, 2017. Describes Brandeis University's 1965 SCLC-SCOPE project in South Carolina.
Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966- 1971, by Martin L. Deppe. University of Georgia Press, 2017. Untold Story, of the unheralded leaders of thel SCLC program based in Chicago that broke a market stranglehold by white businesses in Black communities and empowered Black businesses in their own neighborhoods and beyond.
1967 NBC News Interview with Martin Luther King, that was never broadcast and not made available until 2018. (27 minutes.)Traveling With Dr. King, by Sunnylands & Gandhi-King Institute for Nonviolence. 2019. Video remembrance by people who knew and worked closely with Dr. King.
Iowans Return to Freedom Summer, by Keeping History Alive foundation. 2018. Firsthand accounts from six Freedom Summer volunteers from Iowa who reflect on their motivations, fears, triumphs and the life altering events that took place 50 years ago.
Heather Booth: Changing the World, a documentary film by Lily Rivlin. 2017. How the Civil Rights Movement inspired SNCC activist and Freedom Summer volunteer Heather Booth to a lifetime of fighting for social justice.
Stand for Freedom: The Life & Times of Willie B. Wazir Peacock The story of Willie Peacock, one of the original SNCC field secretaries organzing in the Mississippi Delta. YouTube.
As always comments, suggestions, corrections, and submissions from Freedom Movement activists are welcome. Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement who are listed on the website's Roll Call are encouraged to contribute to the website their stories, thoughts, documents, and memories & tributes of those who have passed on by emailing them to webmaster@crmvet.org.
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