Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 - MP3 Disc

Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 - MP3 Disc

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One MP3 Disc / 5 hours 58 minutes

Mississippi Freedom Project 1964-1965

Part One:

SNCC Mississippi Field Secretary Mathew Jones describes in 1964 his experiences that would evolve to his participation in the Mississippi Freedom Summer. He begins by recounting his time as a student in 1960 at the Tennessee State University in Nashville when the Sit-In Movement began.  (24 minutes, from AZ1397a)

Part Two:

Recorded reports on the Mississippi Voter Registration are done by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SCOPE, Summer Community Organization and Political Education, consists of students from UCLA who are working on voter registration in Bib County, GA. (27 minutes, from AZ1397b)

Governor Ross Barnett

This recording features excerpts of Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett condemning the actions of voter registration activists who have started a movement to register disenfranchised Black voters traditionally excluded from voting in Mississippi. Governor Barnett uses the same language used today to dismiss efforts to make improvements in American society. He recoils to name calling of activists as Communist, Liberals and other such labels that threaten the very fabric of America. Sound familiar LGBT, Immigration, Healthcare, Labor activists...? (19 minutes, from BB0596)

The Children of McComb

A talk with Thomas Hayden and Robert Zellner (field secretaries of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), given under the auspices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to the Durham Youth and College Chapters of the NAACP in Durham, North Carolina. The talk was delivered on October 27, 1961. They discuss their experiences at the student protest in McComb, Mississippi.  (73 minutes, from BB0225)

Mississippi Delta / by Dale Minor

Part One:
An examination of the conditions of Blacks and the thoughts of resident Whites leading up to the Mississippi Freedom voter registration movement in 1964.  (75 minutes, from BB3819.01)

Part Two:

A look at the resistance from the Mississippi establishment toward the efforts made to register Blacks in Mississippi in the early 1960's. Includes incredible actuality and historic testimonials.  (79 minutes, from BB3819.02)

Whatever a Man Soweth...

This documentary on the Mississippi Civil Rights workers begins with Dale Minor narrating the dragging of the Mississippi as they search for Michael Schwerner, James Earl Chaney, and Andrew Goodman.  Comments are from Preston Ponder, Meridian office SNCC staffer; James Forman, Secretary of SNCC; Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson; and white students for the north talking about their orientation and deployment in Mississippi for Freedom Summer.  (69 minutes, from BB3075)

Memorial service for James Chaney

Actuality of a service for a slain civil rights worker, James Chaney, held in his home town in Meridian, Mississippi on August 7, 1964. The principal speakers at the service were David Dennis of CORE and assistant director of the Mississippi summer project and the Reverend Edward Camp, chaplain at Tougaloo College.   (34 minutes, from BB0505)