FREEDOM
SUMMER READING LIST
(Compiled by activists of the time)
*SNCC: The New Abolitionists, Howard Zinn, Beacon 1964
Freedom Summer, Sally Belfrage, Viking, 1966
Ella Baker and
the Black Freedom Movement, Ransby
Letters from Mississippi, Elizabeth Sutherland, McGraw
Hill, 1965 (updated 2002)
Coming of Age in Mississippi, Anne Moody, Dell, 1968
The Making of Black Revolutionaries, James Forman,
McMillan, 1972
My Soul Is Rested, Howell Raines, Penguin, 1977
*In Struggle, Clayborne Carson, Harvard, 1981
We Are Not Afraid, Seth Cagin, 1988
Free at Last? The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who
Made It, Fred Powledge,
Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Danny
Lyon, University of North Carolina Press, 1992
This Little Light of Mine, Kay Mills, Penguin 1993
Local People, John Dittmer, University of Illinois, 1994
Silver Rights, Connie Currie, Algonquin Press, 1995
Ella Baker: Freedom Bound, Joanne Grant, Wiley, 1998
Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith
Robinson, Cynthia Fleming, Rowman & Littlefield, 1998
Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement,
Debra L. Schultz, NYU Press, 2000
Hammer and Hoe,
Robin Kelley
For Freedom's
Sake, Chana Lee
Carry Me Home,
Birmingham, McWhorter
Negroes With
Guns, Robert Williams
Radical
Equations (First section) by Bob Moses
*especially good
There is a
listserve of former SNCC activists at: SNCC@honors.olemiss.edu
Films:
"Freedom on My
Mind,"
"Fundi".
"Deacons For
Defense"
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