From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The transcription of a meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) staff from the North discusses emerging issues in the organization. Mainly, the discussion centers on...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Comments by Stokely Carmichael on the history and goals of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and how they intersect with Carmichael's philosophy of Black power. The document...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report notes that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) actions are based on the values of love, equality and nonviolence. The report includes excerpts from SNCC's rules...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
Transcribed copy of a memo regarding the plans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for the Mississippi Freedom Project. Provides a brief background and plans for freedom schools, community centers, voter registration campaigns,...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 4; formerly titled the "Student Voice), is dated July 1965. Coverage includes...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Letter to Julie Prettyman of SNCC's New York office. Miller expresses disappointment at failure of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and he asks for fund raising ideas.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Transcript of remarks by Bob Moses at SNCC's fifth anniversary meeting, from The Movement; discusses what he sees as erroneous national perceptions of Southern white people and their problems.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A 1963 pamphlet designed to appeal to potential donors; briefly outlines SNCC's history, power structure, activities, present and past achievements.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Report by Terry Cannon on the status of The movement, a newspaper described in the report as SNCC's only regular publication. Cannon describes the status of the paper and lays out goals for the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Financial reports of SNCC's operating expenses, income, and contributions between January and October 1964. Dates and coverage periods on individual pages vary.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document explains to staff members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) what the "Friends of SNCC" groups do. These groups support SNCC's programs in the Civil Rights...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document by Reverend Bob Beech, director of the Hattiesburg Minister's Project. He provides an account of the activities and accomplishments of the Delta Ministry in Hattiesburg in 1964 with regard to voter...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
