Tell It Like It Is
Living History in the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1965-66
"The true story of the movement will never be told. Those who know it can't afford to tell it." Hosea L. Williams
Dedicated to the Ground Crew, the Infantry, and the Infrastructure – those thousands of ordinary people who made the movement happen.
Table of Contents
Group 1
- 1 - Preface
- 2 - Intro
- 3 - Words
- 4 - Why I Became a Civil Rights Worker
Group 2
- 5 - Summer Projects (1964 and 1965)
- 6 - SCOPE Planning and Recruiting
- 7 - Orientation
- 8 - Driving East, Going South
- 9 - The Southern Way of Life
- 10 - Federal Action on Civil Rights before 1965
- 11 - The Department of Justice
- 12 - Federal Judges
Group 3
- 13 - The Long Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina
- 14 - SCOPE in South Carolina
- 15 - SCOPE in Newberry County, South Carolina
- 16 - Berkeley Interlude
Group 4
- 17 - Race in Alabama
- 18 - Alabama After the War
- 19 - Voter Registration in Alabama
- 20 - SCOPE in the Wiregrass Counties of Alabama
- 21 - SCOPE in Western Alabama
- 22 - Alabama Demonstrations
Group 5
- 23 - SCOPE in Georgia
- 24 - Dublin - Laurens County
- 25 - Macon - Bibb County
- 26 - Fort Valley - Peach County
- 27 - Albany - Dougherty County
- 28 - Georgia Hotspots
Group 6
- 29 - SCOPE in Virginia
- 30 - SCOPE in North Carolina
- 31 - SCOPE in Florida
- 32 - VRA Demonstrations
- 33 - The Voting Rights Act
Group 7
- 34 - SCOPE in Henry County, Alabama
- 35 - The SCLC Convention
- 36 - My roots in Marion County
- 37 - The Birmingham Bus Station
- 38 - Visiting Aunt Loy
- 39 - Abbeville
- 40 - Working in Abbeville
- 41 - Dorchester
- 42 - Confrontation at the Courthouse
- 43 - SCOPE Evaluation
- 44 - Culture Clash
- 45 - White on white reprisals
Group 8
- 46 - School Demonstrations in Georgia
- 47 - Schools in Alabama
- 48 - School desegregation in Alabama's Wiregrass Counties
- 49 - The Dothan Horse Show
- 50 - Cotton Picking
- 51 - Leaving Abbeville
Group 9
- 52 - Dallas County, AL
- 53 - "Selma"
- 54 - After "Selma"
- 55 - Marengo County, AL
- 56 - My Three Weeks in Selma
Group 10
- 57 - Barbour County, AL
- 58 - Juries
- 59 - SCOPE in Butler County, AL
- 60 - Greenville
- 61 - Under the Chinaberry Tree
- 62 - Justice
- 63 - Escalation
- 64 - Retreat
Group 11
- 65 - Fired (sort of)
- 66 - Viet Nam protests
- 67 - The "Selma" That Wasn't
- 68 - Jury Bill
Group 12
- 69 - Christmas Project
- 70 - Jefferson County, AL
- 71 - Birmingham
- 72 - The 1963 Birmingham Campaign
- 73 - Voter Registration in Jefferson County
- 74 - School Desegregation in Jefferson County
Group 13
- 75 - Working in Bessemer
- 76 - Working in Birmingham
- 77 - Canvassing
- 78 - Protesting in Birmingham
- 79 - Fighting the Feds
- 80 - Birmingham Jail
- 81 - Going to Court
- 82 - Hunting
- 83 - Registration Race
Group 14
- 84 - Redistricting
- 85 - Political Parties in Alabama
- 86 - Primary Preparations
- 87 - Reverberations
Group 15
- 88 - The Communist Ghost
Group 16
- 89 - Winter Demonstrations in Alabama
- 90 - Leaving Birmingham
- 91 - Dropping in on John Doar
- 92 - New York City and Viet Nam
Group 17
- 93 - Alabama Primary Campaign: The Governor's Race
- 94 - Alabama Primary Campaign: State and Local Races
- 95 - Primary Day in Alabama
- 96 - Returning South
Group 18
- 97 - Macon County, AL
- 98- Tuskegee
- 99 - School Desegregation in Macon County
- 100 - Campaigning in Macon County
- 101 - Bullock County, AL
- 102 - The Run-off Primary
- 103 - Post-primary Litigation
Group 19
- 104 - Atlanta
- 105 - The Meredith Mississippi March
- 106 - Mississippi
- 107 - Grenada, MS
- 108 - Leaving Grenada
- 109 - Meeting the Kings
- 110 -The Georgia Primary
- 111 - School Desegregation in Grenada
Group 20
- 112 - Chicago
- 113 - November Election
- 114 - The Chicago Freedom Movement
- 115 - Finding My Way in the Second City
- 116 - The UTC and the WSO
Group 21
- 117 - The Trip to L.A.
- 118 - San Francisco Jail
- 119 - Lunch with the Judge
Group 22
- 120 - The West Side TORCH
- 121 - Looking for a Job
- 122 - Organizing Women
- 123 - Working
- 124 - Funeral
Group 23
- 125 - Aftermath
Group 24
- References
Group 25
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix 1: Where Are They Now?
- Appendix 2: Voter Registration Forms