Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Actions described include boycotts, sit-ins, voter registration drives, freedom rides, marches, and a host of direct action campaigns to confront segregation and discrimination.

Movement activists include:

Ralph Abernathy

• On Freedom Road with Reverend Ralph Abernathy
• A Happy Day in Birmingham, May 10, 1963 (1 of 2) and (2 of 2)
• Birmingham: Testament of Nonviolence, Part 3; Mother’s Day, May 12 (1 of 2) and (2 of 2)
• Birmingham: Testament of Nonviolence, Part 4; Back to School in Birmingham (1 of 2) and (2 of 2)

Ella Baker

• Tribute to Ella Baker

James Bevel

• Free At Last
• Report from the South - James Bevel

Julian Bond

• School Desegregation

Richard W. Boone

• Head Start in Mississippi

Anne Braden

• Tribute to Ella Baker

Claude Brown

• Color Us Black. Part 1

H. Rap Brown

• Tribute to Ella Baker

Stokely Carmichael

• Stokely Carmichael Interview
• Tribute to Ella Baker
• From Protest to Resistance

Dr. Kenneth Clark

• Color Us Black. Part 1
• For Freedom Now
• Head Start in Mississippi

Leroy Clark

• The Civil Rights Lawyer in the South

Dr. Rufus Clement

• Grassroots Voter 1960: Civil Rights

Annie Devine

• Black Power Surveyed; Handful That We Are in Mississippi: A Spectrum of Opinion in Mississippi

Charles Evers

• Black Natchez
• The Negro Voter

James Farmer

• For Freedom Now
• Long, Hot Summer '64; Episode 10
• Louisiana Diary

James Foreman

• Civil Rights: What Next?
• For Freedom Now
• We Shall Overcome

Mrs. E. Franklin Frazier

• Color Us Black. Part 1

David Gelfand

• A Dialogue on Mississippi

Polly Greenberg

• Head Start in Mississippi

Dick Gregory

• Dick Gregory Is Alive and Well
• Ralph Gleason Interviewing Dick Gregory

Fannie Lou Hamer

• Fannie Lou Hamer Interview
• Head Start in Mississippi
• The Negro Voter

Nathan Hare

• Color Us Black. Part 1

Mike Harris

• Color Us Black. Part 1

Tom Hayden

• Children of McComb

Dorothy Height

• Birmingham: Testament of Nonviolence, Part 3; Mother’s Day, May 12 (1 of 2) and (2 of 2)

Jesse Hill Jr.

• Grassroots Voter 1960: Civil Rights

Myles Horton

• Thirty Years of Civil Rights Education in the South / Myles Horton

Rev. William Hudson

• School Integration

James Jackson

• Black Natchez

Rev. Jesse Jackson

• Free At Last

Charles Jones

• The Civil Rights Lawyer in the South

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• A Happy Day in Birmingham, May 10, 1963 (1 of 2) and (2 of 2)
• Birmingham: Testament of Nonviolence, Part 3; Mother’s Day, May 12 (1 of 2) and (2 of 2)
• Birmingham: Testament of Nonviolence, Part 4; Back to School in Birmingham (1 of 2) and (2 of 2)
• For Freedom Now
• Free At Last
• The Negro Voter
• Poor People’s Campaign
• With Some Deliberate Speed

Tom Levin

• Head Start in Mississippi

John Lewis

• If Eugene Talmadge Were Alive Today, He’d Turn Over in His Grave

John Lowery

• Kidnapping in North Carolina

Floyd McKissick

• Tribute to Ella Baker
• Civil Rights: What Next?

Ronnie Moore

• The Battle Is Not Yet Won
• Louisiana Diary

Constance Baker Motley

• Birmingham: Testament of Nonviolence, Part 4; Back to School in Birmingham (1 of 2) and (2 of 2)

Karen Mulloy

• Tribute to Ella Baker

James Nabrit III

• Color Us Black. Part 1

Rosa Parks

• Commentary of a Black Southern Bus Rider / Rosa Parks

Eugene Patterson

• Grassroots Voter 1960: Civil Rights

Mary Peabody

• Dateline St. Augustine; Episode 8: A Day of Arrests

Joe Pfister

• An Integrated Project in Georgia

Ed Pincus

• One Year Later in Mississippi

Bayard Rustin

• Civil Rights Summer 66’

Mrs. Hattie Safford

• Head Start in Mississippi

Charles Sherrod

• If Eugene Talmadge Were Alive Today, He’d Turn Over in His Grave
• An Integrated Project in Georgia
• Walk to Freedom

Ellen Siegel

• Long, Hot Summer '64; Episode 11

Priscilla Stephens

• The Sit-ins and the New South

Charles Steptoe

• A Dialogue on Mississippi

James R. Walker, Jr.

• The Negro Lawyer in the South

Roy Wilkins

• For Freedom Now

Hosea Williams

• Civil Rights: What Next?
• Free At Last

Marian Wright

• Head Start in Mississippi

Andrew Young

• Free At Last

Whitney Young

• Civil Rights Summer ’66
• For Freedom Now

Melvyn Zarr

• The Civil Rights Lawyer in the South

Robert Zellner

• Children of McComb

Howard Zinn

• Tribute to Ella Baker