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

• Report from the South - James Bevel

Anne Braden

• Tribute to Ella Baker

H. Rap Brown

• Tribute to Ella Baker

Stokely Carmichael

• Stokely Carmichael Interview
• Tribute to Ella Baker

Leroy Clark

• The Civil Rights Lawyer in the South

Annie Devine

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

James Farmer

• Long, Hot Summer '64; Episode 10

David Gelfand

• A Dialogue on Mississippi

Dick Gregory

• Ralph Gleason Interviewing Dick Gregory

Fannie Lou Hamer

• Fannie Lou Hamer Interview

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)

Myles Horton

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

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)

John Lowery

• Kidnapping in North Carolina

Floyd McKissick

• Tribute to Ella Baker

Ronnie Moore

• The Battle Is Not Yet Won

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

Rosa Parks

• Commentary of a Black Southern Bus Rider / Rosa Parks

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

Charles Sherrod

• Walk to Freedom
• An Integrated Project in Georgia

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

Melvyn Zarr

• The Civil Rights Lawyer in the South

Robert Zellner

• Children of McComb

Howard Zinn

• Tribute to Ella Baker