Lessons from Freedom Summer

by Emery, Kathy

• ISBN13: 9781567513882
• ISBN10: 1567513883
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Common Courage Pr

Summary

People Make Movements provides the historical context to the Freedom Schools of Mississippi in 1964.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvi
About Using This Book	p. xix
Abolitionists and the Nonviolent Tradition	p. 1
William Lloyd Garrison: Abolitionism	p. 3
William Lloyd Garrison: First Editorial from "The Liberator"	p. 7
Frederick Douglass: The Fugitive Slave Act	p. 7
Frederick Douglass: Editorial from the North Star (1847)	p. 10
Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience	p. 13
Henry David Thoreau: Essay on the Duty of Civil Disobedience	p. 14
Mohandas Gandhi: Nonviolence	p. 17
Gandhi's Letter to Lord Edward Irwin	p. 20
Mahatma Gandhi: My Faith in Nonviolence	p. 25
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)	p. 27
Ida B. Wells: The Anti-Lynching Campaign	p. 30
Ida B. Wells: A Red Record	p. 34
W.E.B. DuBois: The Campaign against "The Birth of A Nation"	p. 36
Thurgood Marshall: The NAACP Legal Defense Fund	p. 40
Medgar Evers: The Jackson Movement (Mississippi)	p. 46
NAACP Appeals to Negro, White Citizens	p. 50
Remarks of Mr. Medgar Evers	p. 51
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)	p. 55
What Then Are the Principles of CORE?	p. 56
Bayard Rustin: The Journey of Reconciliation	p. 59
David Dennis: The Freedom Rides	p. 65
Attention Restless Race Mixers Whose Hobby Is Creating Trouble	p. 68
Rita Levant Schwerner: Mississippi Community Centers	p. 73
Core Community Centers	p. 77
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)	p. 79
History and Philosophy of the SCLC	p. 81
Martin Luther King: The Montgomery Bus Boycott	p. 83
Myles Horton: The Highlander School	p. 89
Highlander's Statement of Purpose, 1950	p. 85
Highlander Workshop Announcement	p. 98
Septima Clark: SCLC Citizenship Schools	p. 99
The SCLC Citizen Education Program	p. 104
Annelle Ponder: The Citizen Education Program in Mississippi	p. 111
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)	p. 117
Ella Baker: Developing Leadership	p. 125
Ella Baker: "Bigger than a Hamburger"	p. 129
Bob Moses: Voter Registration	p. 130
Testimony Before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1965	p. 136
Herbert Lee: Nonviolent High	p. 142
Amzie Moore: SNCC in Mississippi	p. 147
The Economy of Ruleville, Mississippi	p. 151
The Challenge of Mississippi	p. 157
The Bilbo Hearings: Complaints	p. 162
The Bilbo Hearings: Testimony	p. 165
James Eastland: The White Citizens Council	p. 168
The Southern Manifesto, 1956	p. 171
A Manual For Southerners	p. 174
Emmett Till: The Ku Klux Klan	p. 176
M Is For Mississippi And Murder	p. 179
Elected Officials: State and City Government	p. 184
1965 Voting Rights Hearings	p. 186
Excerpts from Reports of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission	p. 188
George W. Lee: Local Law Enforcement	p. 193
COFO, Running Summary of Incidents (excerpts)	p. 196
Report on Beatings in McComb, June 8, 1964	p. 198
Toward Freedom Summer	p. 201
Aaron Henry: Freedom Vote and Freedom Days	p. 205
James Forman: The Debate Over the Use of White Volunteers	p. 213
Some Aspects Of Black-White Problems As Seen By Field Staff	p. 216
Notes (excerpts) from the Third Organizational Meeting of SNCC	p. 218
Andrew Goodman: The Volunteers	p. 226
Mississippi Summer Project Application Form	p. 228
Answers Written By Volunteer Applicants	p. 232
Memo to Accepted Applicants	p. 234
Memo to Accepted Applicants (#2)	p. 235
Western Union Telegrams	p. 238
Papers of the Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee	p. 239
Preparations For Freedom Summer	p. 243
Letter Describing Mississippi Summer Project Sent to Whites in Mississippi by COFO	p. 244
Hollis Watkins: The Orientation for the Volunteers	p. 248
Bob Moses' Letter to President Johnson	p. 253
Possible Role Playing Situations	p. 255
James Chaney: Facing the Reality of Violence and Jail	p. 256
Security Handbook	p. 261
Security Check-Out Form	p. 264
Michael Schwerner: "Mississippi Burning"	p. 264
THE KLAN LEDGER	p. 269
COFO Report: The Philadelphia, Mississippi, Case	p. 271
Freedom Summer: Freedom Schools and the Arts	p. 277
Charles Cobb: The Freedom Schools	p. 278
Kirsty Powell: A Report, Mainly on Ruleville Freedom School	p. 282
Staughton Lynd: The Freedom School Convention	p. 287
1964 Platform of the Mississippi Freedom School Convention	p. 289
Bernice Johnson Reagon: The Music of Freedom Summer	p. 297
Pete Seeger: The Mississippi Caravan of Music	p. 304
John O'Neal: The Free Southern Theater	p. 308
A General Prospectus for the Establishment of a Free Southern Theater	p. 309
Free Southern Theater Workshop, Tougaloo College, Mississippi	p. 311
Freedom Summer: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party	p. 315
Edwin King: Freedom Registration and Candidates	p. 317
Mississippi Voter Registration Form	p. 321
MFDP Voter Registration Form	p. 323
Unita Blackwell: The MFDP Convention	p. 324
Primer for Delegates	p. 326
Fannie Lou Hamer: The Challenge at the Democratic National Convention	p. 330
The Platform and Principles of the Mississippi State Democratic Party	p. 334
Beyond Freedom Summer	p. 345
Mississippi Beyond Freedom Summer	p. 346
Beyond Mississippi	p. 353
An End to History	p. 356
Lessons: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle	p. 357
Further Research, Debate and Activities	p. 363
Bibliography	p. 407
Endnotes	p. 419
Index	p. 442
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