Freedom Schools Archives - Zinn Education Project

To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale. 2015. A collection and examination of the creative literary work of students published during 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

Freedom Summer

Film. Written, produced, and directed by Stanley Nelson. 2014. 120 minutes. Documentary about 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Michael Edmonds. 2014. Anthology of first hand accounts and primary documents from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.

Freedom Summer 1964

Profile. Summer initiative to register African American voters in Mississippi.

Freedom Summer 1964 Collection

Website. Extensive collection on the Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.

Freedom on My Mind

Film. Directed Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford. Written by Michael Chandler. 1994. 110 min. The story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s.

Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Charles M. Payne and Carol Sills Strickland. Foreword by Charles E. Cobb Jr. 2008. Documents the history of the use of education as a tool of collective liberation by African Americans.

Lessons from Freedom Summer: Ordinary People Building Extraordinary Movements

Teaching Guide. Edited by Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold and Sylvia Braselmann. Foreword by Howard Zinn. 2008. 456 pages. Readings and lessons on the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project.

Freedom Summer

Book - Non-fiction. By Bruce Watson. 2010. A history of Freedom Summer, the pivotal period of the Civil Rights Movement in 1964 Mississippi.

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner. 2010. 616 pages. An unprecedented women's history of the Civil Rights Movement, from sit-ins to Black Power.

Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Freedom School Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez. Introduction by Julian Bond. 2007. Letters and poetry from Civil Rights Movement volunteers in the summer of 1964.