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Chapters

Group 1 (390 KB)

  • 1 - Preface
  • 2 - Introduction
  • 3 - Words
  • 4 - Why I Became a Civil Rights Worker

Group 2 (1.02 MB)

  • 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 (500 KB)

  • 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 (630 KB)

  • 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 (559 KB)

  • 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 (463 KB)

  • 29 - SCOPE in Virginia
  • 30 - SCOPE in North Carolina
  • 31 - SCOPE in Florida
  • 32 - VRA Demonstrations
  • 33 - The Voting Rights Act

Group 7 (976 KB)

  • 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 (457 KB)

  • 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 (487 KB)

  • 52 - Dallas County, AL
  • 53 - "Selma"
  • 54 - After "Selma"
  • 55 - Marengo County, AL
  • 56 - My Three Weeks in Selma

Group 10 (707 KB)

  • 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 (317 KB)

  • 65 - Fired (sort of)
  • 66 - Viet Nam protests
  • 67 - The "Selma" That Wasn't 
  • 68 - Jury Bill

Group 12 (496 KB)

  • 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 (677 KB)

  • 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 (313 KB)

  • 84 - Redistricting
  • 85 - Political Parties in Alabama
  • 86 - Primary Preparations
  • 87 - Reverberations

Group 15 (100 KB)

  • 88 - The Communist Ghost

Group 16 (287 KB)

  • 89 - Winter Demonstrations in Some Alabama
  • 90 - Leaving Birmingham
  • 91 - Dropping in on John Doar
  • 92 - New York City and Viet Nam

Group 17 (380 KB)

  • 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 (573 KB)

  • 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 (836 KB)

  • 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 (408 KB)

  • 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 (224 KB)

  • 117 - The Trip to L.A.
  • 118 - San Francisco Jail
  • 119 - Lunch with the Judge

Group 22 (466 KB)

  • 120 - The West Side TORCH
  • 121 - Looking for a Job
  • 122 - Organizing Women
  • 123 - Working
  • 124 - Funeral

Group 23 (89.7 KB)

  • 125 - Aftermath

Group 24 (233 KB)

  • References

Group 25 (83.8 KB)

  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix 1: Where Are They Now?
  • Appendix 2: Voter Registration Forms