This section contains original documents and materials created or distributed by Freedom Movement organizations during 1951-1968. Most of these documents are in PDF format.
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Documents From Major Events
Publications
Organizing & Political Materials
Press Releases
Election Campaign Flyers
Maps
Minutes, Reports & Plans.
Internal Organizational
Personnel Documents
Contact Lists
WATS Line & Phone Reports
Civil Rights Acts
Vietnam War, Draft Resistance & GI Movt. Documents
Research & Analysis
Laws, Legal Documents, & Briefs
Affidavits of Violence & Police Repression
Parents of Activists
Miscellaneous & Uncatagorizable
Government & Institutional
Literacy Tests & Voter Registration
International
Alabama Field Interrogation Cards
Racist, Hate, & Repression
1966 Alabama Elections
Albany & Southwest GA Movement (61-63)
Atlanta/Vine City Project (1966)
ASCS Elections (64-67)
Birmingham Movement (56-66)
Black Power (65-68)
Canton & Madison Co. MS (63-66)
Citizenship Schools (54-??)
Chicago Freedom Movement (66)
Free Southern Theater, 1963-1965
Freedom Rides (61)
Freedom Summer Projects (64-65)
Freedom Schools (64-65)
Grenada MS Movement (66)
Jackson, MS Movement (61-65)
Lowndes County, AL (65-67)
March on Washington (63) McComb & Pike Co. MS (61-65)
MFDP (63-68)
Montgomery Bus Boycott (55-56)
Movement in the North
Poor People's Campaign (67-68)
Poverty & Economic Justice (64-68)
School Desegregation (54-68)
SCLC's SCOPE Project (65-66)
Selma & March to Montgomery (63-65)
Sit-Ins of 1960-61
SNCC Founding Conference (60)
SNCC Waveland Conference (64)
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Reports
Youth Marches for Integrated Schools (58, 59)
White House Conference on Civil Rights (66)
Field Reports & Letters from
Southern Projects and Geographic Areas:
Arkansas Project, SNCC. 1965
Canton/Meridian (Madison/Lauderdale Co. MS)
Mississippi Freedom Summer
North Florida Citizen Education Project
SCOPE
Selma, Alabama
Southwest Georgia
Sunflower Co & Ruleville MS
Stanford University Mississippi Freedom Project
Documents From the
Northern Wing of the Movement:
Northern Documents Chronologically
Northern Documentss Grouped by Issue
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Berkeley Free Speech Movement (FSM)
San Francisco State College
BSU/TWLF SFSC Student String for Third World studies
Movement Legal & Security Research Documents.
Note: To keep prevent this list from growing too large, all press releases are listed separately under Freedom Movement Press Releases regardless of topic or organization.
See also Reports & Letters From the Field
SNCC Ongoing Issues, Courtland Cox, SNCC. Prepared for SNCC 50th Anniversary reunion 2010.Members of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (1964-1969). Prepared for SNCC 50th Anniversary reunion 2010
Chronology of Legislation on Civil Rights 1945-1965 (incl executive actions). Detailed 21 pages. Congressional Quarterly, 1965.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964 Civil Rights Act,
provisions summary, CQ, 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964, text of. USGPO.
1964 Civil Rights Act, legislative history – House, detailed 9 pages. CQ, 1965
1964 Civil Rights Act, legislative history – Senate, detailed 18 pages. CQ, 1965
1964 Civil Rights
Act, legislative history – Final Actions, & Black voter
statistics. CQ, 1965
Enforcement of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Congressional Quarterly. As of end of March 1965. Detailed analyses.
Civil Rights Under Federal Programs - An Analysis of Title VI
Sweeping Voting Rights Bill Proposed in 1965 Congressional Quarterly. Detailed analysis of bill submitted to Congress, March 17, 1965.
Voting Rights Act of 1965 (as enacted)
Civil Rights Act of 1966 (Defeated)
Civil Rights Act of 1968 (text of)
Fair Housing Act of
1968
Summary of 1968 Civil Rights Act, U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights
A few examples of typical segregation laws and racist hate literature.
See also:
History & Timeline: 1951- 1968 — Descriptions of Movement events.Our Words — Articles & speeches by Movement veterans written at the time.Reports & Letters From the Field — By Movement veterans.Photo Album — Movement photos, posters, etc.Our Thoughts — Retrospectives and later analysis by Movement veterans.Our Stories — Memories, narratives & interviews of Movement veterans.Our Thoughts — Analyses and commentaries by Movement veterans.Discussions — Transcripts of group discussions by veterans.
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