According to Google, 32,600 people visited the website during April for an
average of 1087 per day. This is roughly 35% more than April of last year (but
in April of last years schools were closed and remote learning not yet in wide
use). Roughly 12% of our visitors came from outside the U.S.
— Bruce Hartford, Webspinner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Organizing Our Strength for Tomorrow: A Call to Gather on SNCC's 60th
Anniversary
A virtual online gathering, October 14-16, 2021
SNCC 60th Anniversary Conference.
May 20th, 5:30-7:00pm (CDT) 60th Anniversary of 1961 Freedom Rides. An in-person
and virtual (online) event.
Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery AL.
Co-sponsored by the filmmakers of
Son of the South.
FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical is getting a cast album in
partnership with Broadway Records and New York Theater Barn. The album is
being
crowdfunded .
In conjunction, a second album of all freedom songs from the movement
(performed by the FREEDOM RIDERS cast) is also being created in partnership
with the Freedom Riders National Monument. The album is inspired by the
Nashville Sit-In Story album that was created in 1960.
Now Available: It's in
the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior. Personal memoir and
observations by one of the key central figures in the Freedom Movement. From
student sit-ins to the Freedom Rides to the battles for voting rights and a
fair share of political and economic power, C.T. Vivian was on the ground in
the action.
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 email to us documents, letters,
reports, stories, and other Southern Freedom Movement materials from the
period 1951-1968. If you have paper-based materials, please make good quality
photo-copies and postal mail them to us for scanning and uploading (see
About Us for postal address).
It's in the Action:
Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, by C.T. Vivian with Steve
Fiffer. NewSouth Books, 2021. Personal memoir and observations by one of the
key central figures in the Freedom Movement. From student sit-ins to the
Freedom Rides to the battles for voting rights and a fair share of political
and economic power, C.T. Vivian was on the ground in the action.
Fire at the Freedom
House, by Matt Rinaldi. Personal memoir of a white activist
working Attala County, Mississippi, in 1966 under the organizing direction of
the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) led by Lawrence Guyot and Mrs.
Fannie Lou Hamer.
Julian Bond's Time to Teach:
A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, by Julian Bond,
Danny Lyon, Pamela Horowitz, & others. Beacon Press (2021). History &
analysis of the Freedom Movement based on Julian's course lecture notes and
his personal insights.
My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil
Rights Movement, by Gwendolyn (Gwen) Patton. NewSouth Books, 2020.
Autobiography & Movement memoir by a long-term stalwart of the Freedom
Movement — Montgomery Bus Boycott & Montgomery Improvement
Association, student sit-ins, Freedom Rides, student activism at Tuskegee,
voter-registration and rural organizing, Selma and the March to Montgomery.
Year Forever in my Veins, by Faith
Holsaert. Backbone Press, 2020. Chapbook of poems growing out of letters home
to mother and sister during year working with SNCC in Southwest Georgia.
Our Sixties,
by Freedom Movement veteran Paul Lauter. University of Rochester Press, 2020.
Examination of the values, exploits, victories, implications, and failings, of
the "Movement" in the 1960s. Includes chapters about Freedom Summer of 1964,
Natchez in the summer of 1965, and a community school in DC, 1966.
Mississippi & After: A Life
in Equal Justice Law, by Gil Venable (1942-2019), One Monkey Books,
2020. Memoir of a law student assisting the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law in Jackson, MS.
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country ~ The Benton County Civil Rights
Movement, by Roy DeBerry, Aviva Futorian, Stephen Klein, and John
Lyons. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. History of the Benton movement
and personal narratives of local Freedom Movement participants.
A Small Town Rises: A Sharecropper and a College Girl Join the Struggle for
Justice in Shaw, Mississippi, by Lee Anna Sherman with Movement
veterans Eddie Short and recent college grad Mary Sue Gellatly. Bog Lily
Press, 2020. Chronicles the lives of two civil rights activists who met in the
tiny cotton-town of Shaw during Freedom Summer and joined forces with local
black activist Andrew Hawkins and a host of courageous townspeople to
challenge and disrupt the status quo in the heart of the Mississippi Delta.
Tip of the Arrow: the Selma Student Nonviolent Movement, a Study in
Leadership, by Charles Bonner. Page Publishing, 2020. An
"up-from-below" and "inside-out" examination of, and personal
narratives by, the young students of Selma Alabama who from 1963 to 1965 were
the tip of the nonviolent arrow in the fight for freedom and equality. Charles
Bonner, the author, was one of the main student leaders and then a SNCC field
secretary. Today he is one of the boldest civil rights attorneys in
California.
Race Man: Selected Works,
1960-2015, by Julian Bond. City Lights Publishers; 2020).
"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.
FILM & VIDEO:
Son of the South
a film based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek. The story of how a
White Southerner, from a KKK background made the decision to join the Civil
Rights Movement as the first white field secretary for SNCC.
SNCC (Trailer).
A 2020 film by SNCC photographer Danny Lyon that brings together never seen
made during the years he was employed as the staff photographer for the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The images are layered with
archival audio recordings of speeches by, and conversations with, John Lewis,
Julian Bond, Dotty Zellner, among others, as well as freedom songs that were
recorded by Alan Ribback in churches and meetings in Atlanta in the 1960s and
recently rediscovered.
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.
They Say I'm Your
Teacher, nine minute video by Lucy Phenix about the Citizenship
Schools (exerpted from the film You Got to Move: Stories of Change in
the South.)
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.
