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Risking everything : a Freedom Summer reader /
"Risking Everything : A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach non-violence, and more than 60,000 Black Mississippians risked everything to overturn a system th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
Wisconsin Historical Society Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Before Freedom Summer. "A guide to Mississippi", Spring 1964 : Journalist Jerry DeMuth's introduction to life in the heart of the segregated South ; "Rugged, ragged 'Snick': what it is and what it does" : A portrait of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ; Fannie Lou Hamer deposition : A personal account of the torture of Delta women for using whites-only facilities ; SNCC Biography: Bob Moses : A short profile of the director of the Freedom Summer project ; Notes on biography of Dave Dennis : An informal resume of CORE's Director of Operations in Mississippi
- 2. Debates, preparations, training. Memo to SNCC Executive Committee, September 1963 : Bob Moses proposes the Freedom Summer project ; Notes on Mississippi : Summary of the 1963 Freedom Vote and SNCC's November 14
- 18, 1963, staff meeting ; Dear Friend : COFO recruits supporters and volunteers ; Application to work on the Freedom Summer Project : Andrew Goodman's volunteer application, March 1964 ; Mississippi Summer Project launched : SNCC announces Freedom Summer to the press, March 20, 1964 ; Letter from volunteer training in Oxford, Ohio : Joel Bernard writes home on June 25, 1964, from Freedom Summer orientation ; Possible role-playing situations : Volunteers prepare to meet hostile conditions in Mississippi ; Security handbook : Manual for volunteers describing how to face the Summer's dangers ; Nonviolence: two training documents : Volunteers are introduced to the theory and practice of nonviolence.
- 3. Opposition and violence. Mississippi readies laws for Freedom Summer : Bills introduced in the Mississippi legislature to thwart Freedom Summer, June 1964 ; The Klan ledger : The Klan reacts to Freedom Summer, September 1964 ; The Citizens' Council: a history : The head of the White Citizens' Councils explains their history and mission ; Summary of major points in testimony by citizens of Mississippi to Panel of June 8, 1964 : Black Mississippians describe the intimidation and harassment they faced ; "Road to Mississippi" : Journalist Louis Lomax's haunting account of the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner on June 21, 1964 ; Memo to parents of Mississippi Summer Volunteers, Late June 1964 : Bob Moses writes to parents of volunteers after the murders ; Selected hate mail : Vicious correspondence sent to staff and families by racist opponents of Freedom Summer ; Notes and letter from Neshoba County, August 15
- 22, 1964 : A volunteer moves to the town where the three murdered men worked
- 4. Voter registration. Negro voters by district and county, 1963 : Percentages of African Americans registered to vote in Mississippi ; Voter registration summer prospects : COFOs instructions for voter registration volunteers, June 1964 ; Techniques for field work: voter registration : COFO instructs volunteers how to canvass door to door ; Sworn written application for Registration : application to register to vote in Mississippi ; What were we there to do? : Two ministers describe voter registration work in Hattiesburg ; Dear Dad : Robert Feinglass describes a typical day canvassing for voters in Holly Springs ; Dear Mom and Dad : Volunteer Ellen Lake describes what voting means to her Gulfport neighbors ; To overcome fear : SNCC worker Charles McLaurin takes local residents to the courthouse for the first time.
- 5. Freedom Schools. Some notes on education : SNCC's Charlie Cobb envisions a new kind of schooling for Mississippi's youth ; Profiles of typical Freedom Schools: Hattiesburg, Meridian, Holly Springs, and Ruleville, Spring 1964 : COFO describes how four towns are preparing to host Freedom Schools ; Freedom School curriculum outline : An overview of the curriculum taught in Freedom Schools ; Curriculum Part II, Unit 1: Comparison of students' reality with others ; Freedom School teachers use students' lives to foster critical thinking ; Curriculum Part II, Unit 6: Material things and soul things : Freedom School teachers make their students ask big questions ; Dear Family and Friends : Teacher Cornelia Mack describes Freedom School students and classes ; Freedom Schools in Mississippi, September 1964 : Liz Fusco, coordinator of the Freedom Schools, evaluates their results
- 6. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Mississippi Freedom candidates : The program of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and its candidates ; Notes on the Democratic National Convention challenge : The Reverend Charles Sherrod's account of the MFDPs challenge to racist delegates at the Democratic National Convention ; Instructions for the Freedom vote and regular election : How the MFDPs parallel "Freedom Election", October 31
- November 2, 1964, was run ; Congressional challenge fact sheet : The MFDP challenges Mississippi's all-white congressional representatives
- 7. After Freedom Summer ; Affidavits of violence in August
- September 1964 : Brutality in McComb after Northern volunteers and reporters go home ; COFO Program, Winter 1964
- Spring 1965 : Cofo's plan to continue Freedom Summer initiatives through spring 1965 ; "These Are the Questions" : SNCC's executive secretary fames Forman reflects on the Organization's past and its future in November 1964
- Afterword: Freedom Summer documents.