Book - Non-fiction. By Charles E. Cobb Jr. 2015.
Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s.
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Article. By Howard Zinn. From Chapter 6 of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
Zinn describes the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) voting rights campaign called Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Miss.
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Digital Collection.
Extensive collection on the Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.
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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.
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Book - Non-fiction. By Charles M. Payne. 1995.
A people's history of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
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Book - Non-fiction. By John Dittmer. 1995.
A detailed, grassroots description of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
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Book - Non-fiction. By Wesley C. Hogan. 2009.
An innovative study of what the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) accomplished and, more importantly, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time.
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Book - Non-fiction. By Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr. 2001.
Algebra Project founder on math literacy and civil rights.
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Film. By Phil Alden Robinson. 2006. 117 min.
Based on the actual history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), student activism, and voter registration in McComb, Mississippi, during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Digital Collection.
Resources on the Southern Freedom Movement compiled by those who lived it. Includes a bibliography, timelines, photos, primary source documents, and lists of speakers.
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