According to Google, 69,303 people visited the website during June for an average of 2310 per day. That average figure, however, is very misleading because the street protests and public discourse sparked by the police-lynching of George Floyd caused a huge spike in visits to our site. For comparison, in June of last year we averaged 392 visits per day. And it wasn't just Americans, 15% of our visitors came other nations. Most of those who came to us duriing the spike were primarily interested in accessing The Other America, Dr. King's famous 1967 speech about poverty and racism.
Now that the spike has leveled off, we are currently getting 500-1000 per day which is higher than normal for June when school is out of session.
— Bruce Hartford, Webspinner.
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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.
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.
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.
1952 Voting Restrictions in Mississippi, Aaron Henry, RCNL, Albert Powell, PVL. April 27, 1952 1953 Voter registration/drive donations & remittances, various, RCNL? 1953 1957 Summary of Research on Library Situation, Atlanta, GA. Whitney Young, ACHR. 1957 ???? Memo to prospective voluneers, Secondris Hawkins, Washington DC Urban League. Undated 62? 63? Victims of Voter Registration, A Call for Help from Mississippi, Unsigned, OFC. Undated (probably late '62 or early '63) 62? 63? Harassments, Boycotts, Shootings, regarding Ruleille MS. Unsigned, OFC. Undated (probably late '62 or early '63) 1963? Memo: Freedom Registration in Mississippi,, Unsigned, COFO. Undated (probably fall of 1963) 1963 Voter Education Project Expense Vouchers, Unsigned, COFO. January 13, 1963 1964 Tentative Plan for Organizition of Freedom Schools, Community Center, MSU in Valley View, Unsigned, COFO. Undated 1964 (probably summer or early fall) 1964 Specific Staff Assignments and event plan, Unsigned, CORE, Madison & Rankin Counties, MS. Undated 1964 (probably late summer or early fall) 1964 CORE Mississippi Fourth District Office Files, Unsigned, CORE. 1964 1964 Subjects on which information is readily available, Unsigned, CORE. 1964 1964 Memo re office phones, Margaret Cunningham, COFO. Undated (probably late summer or early fall 1964) 1965 Precinct Meeting at Saint Paul's, Unsigned flyer, (MFDP). 1965 1965? Questions for the District Office to Handle, MS. Unsigned, CORE. Undated (possibly 1965) 1965 Report of the Resolutions Committee, SNCC "Jobs and Food" Leadership Conference. November 1965 1965 Things Stolen from 4th District Office, Unsigned, CORE. November 8 1965 1966 Mississippi voter registration number by district and county, unsinged MFDP. Undated, 1966 65? 66? CORE list of contacts and resources, Unsigned, CORE. Undated (possibly 1965 or 1966) 1966 The ABC's of Voting, Unsigned, MFDP. June 3, 1966 1967 Bolivar County Handbook for Voter Education, Unsigned, Bolivar County Education Committee. Undated, 1967 1967 Instructions for Candidates in the Democratic Primary, Fred Wallace, Voter Educational and Security Project. For August 8, 1967 1967 Report on workers & expenses, location unknown. Ethel Gaddison, VEP, November 8 1967 1968 Statement by Mao Tse-Tung on assassination of Dr. King, April 16, 1968 Los Angeles CA Protests, 1963-1964
2/64 CORE L.A. CORE Organizing Calendar 2/1/64 CORE L.A. CORE Membership Bulletin 3/64 CORE L.A. CORE Organizing Calendar 3/64 CORE L.A. CORE-Lator, newsletter. Vol 1, Num 1 3/6/64 CORE L.A. CORE Membership Bulletin 3/11/64 CORE Dear Friend of Freedom, L.A. CORE recruitment letter, Arthur Silver, Chair, L.A. CORE. March 11, 1964
5/27/63 Frank Smith, SNCC Intimidation, (MS) 7/64 Unsigned, COFO Gluckstadt General Information 7/64 Unsigned VR workers Note to Rudy [Lombard] re meeting, undated (July '64?) 7/64 Unsigned, COFO Moss Point-Pascagoula report (MS) 8/64? Ohls, Lepper & Watts Report re Madison Co. activities, undated (possibly July or August '64) 10/5/64 Phil Sharp, COFO Daily Reports, Canton MS, Sept 28-Oct 5 10/5/64 Nancy Jervis? COFO Daily Reports, Canton MS, Sept 28-Oct 5 10/05/64 Mary Jo Shupenko, (COFO) Incident Summary, Canton/Madison Co. MS. 1/10/65 Andrew Green, COFO Valley View Weekly Report, Madison Co. MS 1/26/65 Andrew Green, COFO Report on Billy Nobel surveillance, Valley View, MS. 1/31/65 Andrew Green, COFO Weekly Report on Madison County activities, MS 02/03/65 Andrew Green, (COFO) Weely Report Valley View, MS 02/07/65 Unsigned COFO Report on the Canton Project, MS 02/18/65 Lee, (COFO) Weekly Report from Valley View Office, MS
Freddie Greene Biddle Interview by Emilye Crosby re SNCC, Greenwood, & the movement, 2015.
PDF transcript Video + bio & metadataCourtland Cox Interview by Joseph Mosnier, re NAG, SNCC, the movement & 6th Pan-African Congress, 2011.
PDF transcript Video + bio & metadataDorothy Cotton Interview by Joseph Mosnier, re Dr. King, SCLC, Citizenship Schools, & the movement, 2011.
PDF transcript Video + bio & metadataRobert Hayling Interview by Joseph Mosnier, re St. Augustine FL, SCLC, & the movement, 2011.
PDF transcript Video + bio & metadataHicks family Interview by Joseph Mosnier re CORE, Deacons for Defense, & Bogalusa LA movement, 2011.
PDF transcript Video + bio & metadataJennifer Lawson Interview by Emilye Crosby re SNCC & the movement, 2015.
PDF transcript Video + bio & metadataCharles Sherrod Interview by Joseph Mosnier, re SNCC & Albany movement, 2011.
PDF transcript Video + bio & metadata
1968 The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?, Alice Walker. Undated, possibly 1968
Steven Halliwell - NAACP, 1962-1965, MD, AL Marilyn Lowen - SNCC, CDGM, 1965-1968, MS, AL Vincent Wu - SCLC, 1965-1966, AL, MS
Connie Curry Shai Holsaert
No new poems added this month.
Pins of the Civil Rights Movement
BOOKS:
FILM & VIDEO: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.
"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.
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.)
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