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Freedom Summer

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by Bruce W. Watson


  Poitier, Sidney. Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

  Provenzo, Eugene F., ed. Critical Issues in Education. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006.

  Raines, Howell. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. New York: Penguin, 1977.

  Randall, Herbert, and Bob Tusa. Faces of Freedom Summer. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001.

  Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

  Ravitch, Diane, ed. The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991.

  Roberts, Gene, and Hank Klibanoff. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. New York: Random House, 2007.

  Rogers, Kim Lacy. Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

  Rothschild, Mary Aickin. A Case of Black and White: Northern Volunteers and the Southern Freedom Summers, 1964-1965. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

  Schumacher, Michael. There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs. New York: Hyperion, 1996.

  Sellers, Cleveland, and Robert Terrell. The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC. New York: William Morrow, 1973.

  Silver, James W. Mississippi: The Closed Society. Rev. ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.

  Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

  Skates, John Ray. Mississippi: A Bicentennial History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.

  Sokol, Jason. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

  Sugarman, Tracy. Stranger at the Gates: A Summer in Mississippi. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966.

  Tucker, Shirley. Mississippi from Within. New York: Arco, 1965.

  Von Hoffman, Nicholas. Mississippi Notebook. New York: David White, 1964.

  Wade, Wyn Craig. The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America. New York: Oxford University Press USA, 1998.

  Walton, Anthony. Mississippi: An American Journey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

  Ward, Geoffrey C., Ric Burns, and Ken Burns. The Civil War: An Illustrated History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

  Wendt, Simon. The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007.

  Whalen, John. Maverick Among the Magnolias: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story. Bloomington, Ind.: Xlibris, 2000.

  White, Theodore. The Making of the President, 1964. New York: Atheneum, 1965.

  Whitehead, Don. Attack on Terror: The FBI Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970.

  Wilkie, Curtis. Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

  Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.

  Winter, William F. The Measure of Our Days: The Writings of William F. Winter. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

  Wirt, Frederick M. Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County. Chicago: Aldine, 1970.

  Woods, Randall B. LBJ: Architect of American Ambition. New York: Free Press, 2006.

  Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. 3d rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

  Yates, Gayle Graham. Mississippi Mind: A Personal Cultural History of an American State. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

  Youth of the Rural Organizing and Cultural Center. Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South, an Oral History. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991.

  Zellner, Robert. The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. With Constance Curry. Montgomery, Ala.: NewSouth Books, 2008.

  Zinn, Howard, ed. The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.

  ——. SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.

  Film and Video

  Beymer, Richard. A Regular Bouquet. Self-produced, 1965.

  Hampton, Henry, dir. “Mississippi—Is This America?” Episode 5 of Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement. Boston: Blackside, 1987.

  Mulford, Marilyn, and Connie Field, dirs. Freedom on My Mind. Berkeley, Calif.: Clarity Film Productions, 1994.

  Potter, Anthony, dir. Murder in Mississippi: The Price of Freedom. New York: ABC News, 1994.

  “Students Asked Not to Say Obama’s Name.” WAPT, Channel 16, Jackson, Miss. http://www.wapt.com/video/17928161/index.html.

  Williams, Marco, dir. Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America—Freedom Summer . New York: History Channel, 2006.

  Personal Interviews (in chronological order)

  Gloria Clark, volunteer

  Heather Booth Tobis, volunteer

  Nancy Schlieffelin, volunteer

  Chris Williams, volunteer

  Robert Fullilove, volunteer

  Fran O’Brien, volunteer

  Chude Pamela Allen, volunteer

  Karen Hoberman, volunteer

  Fred Bright Winn, volunteer

  Muriel Tillinghast, volunteer/SNCC staff

  Jay Shetterly, volunteer

  Geoff Cowan, volunteer

  Claire O’Connor, volunteer

  Jim Kates, volunteer

  Ira Landess, volunteer

  Jimmie Travis, SNCC staff

  Dr. Stacey White

  Robert Miles Jr.

  Jack Bishop, cofounder, Association of Tenth Amendment Conservatives

  Elaine Baker, volunteer

  Kathie Sarachild, volunteer

  John Howell, newspaper publisher

  Ray Raphael, volunteer

  Linda Wetmore, volunteer

  Nancy Samstein, volunteer

  Arelya Mitchell, Freedom School student

  Julius Lester, folksinger

  Gary Brooks, McComb, Mississippi, native

  Hollis Watkins, SNCC staff

  Congressman Barney Frank, volunteer

  Richard Beymer, volunteer

  Alan Schiffman, volunteer

  Michael Thelwell, SNCC staff, Washington, D.C.

  Charlie Cobb, SNCC staff

  Curtis (Hayes) Muhammad, SNCC staff

  Charles Capps Jr., sheriff

  Jim Dann, volunteer

  Congressman John Lewis, SNCC staff

  Margaret Block, volunteer

  Otis Brown, SNCC staff

  Dennis Flannagan, volunteer

  Stephen Bingham, volunteer

  Jerry Mitchell, Jackson Clarion-Ledger reporter

  Charles McLaurin, SNCC staff

  Len Edwards, volunteer

  Governor William F. Winter

  Bob Moses, SNCC staff

  Sue Thrasher, volunteer

  Bob Zellner, SNCC staff

  E-mail Interviews (in chronological order)

  Casey Hayden, SNCC staff

  Hodding Carter III, editor, Delta Democrat-Times

  Franklin Delano Roosevelt III

  Web Sites

  American Radio Works. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/.

  American Rhetoric. http://www.americanrhetoric.com.

  Cambridge Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/.

  Cardcow.com, Vintage Postcards and Collectibles. http://www.cardcow.com.

  Civil Rights Movement Veterans Web site. http://www.crmvet.org.

  “Democracy Now!” http://www.alternet.org.

  Meikeljohn Civil Liberties Institute Archives, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/meiklejohn/meik-10_1/meik-10_1-6.html#580.7.

  “Mississippi Burning Trial: Selected Klan Documents.” Famous Trials: U.S.
vs. Cecil Price et al. (“Mississippi Burning” Trial) Web site. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Klan.html.

  The Nina Simone Web. http://boscarol.com/nina/html/where/mississipigoddamn.html.

  Port Gibson Heritage Trust Web site. http://www.portgibsonheritagetrust.org/port_gibson.

  The Sixties Project. http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Sixties.html.

  Digital Library, University of California at Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu.

  “Wednesdays in Mississippi: Civil Rights as Women’s Work.” http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/WIMS/.

  Index

  ABC-TV

  The Search in Mississippi

  Adams, Victoria Gray

  Adickes, Sandra

  Africa, travel to

  “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”

  Alexander, Margaret Walker

  Algebra Project

  Allen, Elizabeth

  Allen, Louis

  Allen, Pamela (née Parker)

  Alsop, Joseph

  Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)

  Americans for the Preservation of the White Race

  Ames, Adelbert

  Amistad

  antiwar movement

  Arendt, Hannah

  Armstrong, Neil

  Association of Tenth Amendment Conservatives (ATAC)

  Atlanta Constitution

  Atlantic City:

  Democratic National Convention in

  Miss America Pageant in

  urban deterioration of

  authority, loss of respect for

  Baker, Ella

  Baldwin, James

  Barnett, O. H.

  Barnett, Ross

  Barnette, Horace Doyle

  Barry, Marion

  Batesville, Mississippi

  “Battle Hymn of the Republic, The”

  Belafonte, Harry

  Belfrage, Sally

  Bender, Rita Schwerner, see Schwerner, Rita

  Benita Sharpshooters

  Bennett, Tony

  Berkeley Free Speech Movement

  Berle, Milton

  Bernstein, Leonard

  Bettelheim, Bruno

  Bewitched (TV)

  Beymer, Richard

  Bilbo, Theodore G.

  Bingham, Hiram

  Bingham, Steve

  Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing in

  Birth of a Nation (film)

  Black Codes

  Black Power

  Blackwell, Unita

  Block, Sam

  “Blowin’ in the Wind”

  Bonanza (TV)

  Bond, Julian

  Bowers, Sam Holloway

  Brinkley, David

  Brooks, Gary

  Broonzy, “Big Bill”

  Brown, Jess

  Brownmiller, Susan

  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

  Bruce, Lenny

  Bryant. C.

  Buck, Demetrius

  Buckley, William F.

  Burrage, Olen

  California, Fair Housing Law in

  Camus, Albert

  Canton, Mississippi

  Capote, Truman

  Capps, Charlie

  Carmichael, Stokeley

  and Black Power

  and Freedom Day

  and Freedom Summer

  nonviolence rejected by

  in Parchman Farm

  police attack on

  and SNCC politics

  and three missing men

  and volunteer training

  Carter, Gloria

  Carter, Hodding III

  Carter, Jimmy

  Cash, Wilbur J., The Mind of the South

  Catledge, Turner

  Chancellor, John

  Chaney, Ben:

  brother missing

  and brother’s activism

  and brother’s burial

  in later years

  Chaney, Fannie Lee:

  grandchild of

  in later years

  and murder trial

  son missing

  son’s body discovered

  and son’s burial

  Chaney, James:

  arrest and release of

  burial of

  civil rights activism of

  discovery of body

  grave of

  in memory of

  missing, see three missing men

  personal traits of

  registering voters

  Channing, Carol

  Chávezésar

  Chicago Seven

  Chicago Tribune

  Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi

  Choctaw Reservation

  churches:

  bombed and burned

  Committee of Concern for

  media stories killed about

  Citizens for Progress

  Civil Rights Act (1964):

  and Kennedy

  Mississippi compliance with

  passed by Senate

  signing of

  testing of

  white backlash against

  civil rights movement

  activism in, see specific agencies and individuals

  beginnings of

  and celebrities

  and Communists

  factions within

  and hope

  Informant X and Y infiltrating

  in interstate travel

  and legislation

  local heroes of

  nonviolence rejected in

  Republican rejection of

  resistance in Mississippi to

  resistance in Washington to

  school busing

  school walkouts

  sit-ins

  slow progress of

  unsolved cases

  and violence

  voting rights, see voting rights

  white backlash against

  Civil War, U.S.:

  history rewritten on

  Mississippi memories of

  Pickett’s Charge

  and Reconstruction

  as War for Southern Independence

  wounds opened from

  Clark, Gloria

  Clark, Ramsey

  Clarksdale, Mississippi

  Cleveland, Mississippi

  Cliburn, Van

  Cobb, Charlie

  and three missing men

  and Tillinghast

  Cole, Junior

  Cole, Mrs. Junior

  Coles, Robert

  Collins, Judy

  Communists:

  and lawsuits

  r ed-baiting

  “red diaper” babies

  rumors of civil rights involvement

  Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

  Connally, John

  Cooke, Sam

  Cotton, MacArthur

  Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)

  and discovery of bodies

  donations to

  and Freedom Day

  Jackson headquarters of

  lawsuits initiated by

  phone network of

  threats and violence against

  and three missing men

  and voter registration

  Cowan, Geoff

  Cowan, Paul

  Cowan, Polly

  Cox, Harold

  Cronkite, Walter

  Cummings, Peter

  Dahmer, Ellie

  Dahmer, Vernon

  Dallas Morning News

  Davis, Jefferson

  Davis, Sammy, Jr.

  Delta blues

  Delta Democrat-Times

  Democracy Now (TV)

  Democratic National Convention (1964)

  civil rights split of

  congressional challenge to

  Credentials Committee

  Freedom Democrats’ arrival in

  Freedom Democrats at

  as Freedom Party goal

  and Hamer

  and Humphrey
<
br />   and LBJ

  lobbying

  as turning point

  two-seat compromise

  Democratic National Convention (1968)

  Democratic National Convention (1984)

  Dennis, Dave

  Dennis, Delmar

  Devine, Annie

  “Dixie”

  “Dixiecrats”

  Doar, John

  Donaldson, Ivanhoe

  Douglass, Frederick

  Drew, Mississippi

  Du Bois, W. E. B.

  The Souls of Black Folk

  Dulles, Allen

  East.

  Eastland, James

  Edwards, Don

  Edwards, Len

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act (2008)

  Espy, Mike

  Evers, Charles

  Evers, Medgar

  assassination of

  funeral of

  memorials for

  Evers, Myrlie

  Fanon, Frantz

  Farmer, James

  Faulkner, William

  FBI:

  arrests by

  bodies discovered by

  and burial site

  and Communists

  and Democratic Convention

  and King

  and the Klan

  lack of response from

  loss of respect for

  and murder trial

  search for missing men

  and station wagon

  and three missing men

  wiretapping by

  Fitzgerald, Ella

  Foote, Shelby, Jordan County

  Ford, Henry

  Forman, James

  Fourth of July (1964)

  Frank, Barney

  Franklin, John Hope

  Freedom Day, July 16, 1964

  Freedom Democrats

  arrival in Atlantic City

  congressional challenge by

  at Democratic Convention, see Democratic National Convention

  demonstrations by

  going home

  hopes dashed

  lobbying by

  moral case of

  obstacles against

  as personification of democracy

  popular support for

  preparing for the convention

  split by class

  violence against

  see also Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

  Freedom Election (1963)

  Freedom Houses

  schools in, see Freedom Schools

  “Freedom Now”

  Freedom Party, see Freedom Democrats; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

  Freedom Riders

  Freedom Schools:

  activities in

  books collected for

  call-and-response in

 

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