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My message for today: Talk to freedom movement elders. They are everywhere and have so much to share. I’m also going to share a few books/sites that I cherish about the movement.
Important websites about the movement: kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/ab…, crmvet.org, sncclegacyproject.org
First person books by young women who came of age in the movement: Endesha Ida Mae Holland "From the Mississippi Delta," Anne Moody "Coming of Age in Mississippi," Charlayne Hunter Gault "To The Mountaintop" Melba Patillo Beals "Warriors Don't Cry"
Books that capture the organizing required in the movement: JoAnne Robinson "The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It" Charles Payne "I've Got the Light of Freedom," "Hands on the Freedom Plow"- A collection of memories of the women of SNCC...
A wonderful book by SNCC veteran Charlie Cobb "That Nonviolent Stuff Will Get You Killed," and Martin Luther King Jr. "Why We Can't Wait." Hasan Jeffries "Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt."
This is not systematic, sorry. Documentaries: Folks should also watch the ENTIRE series of Eyes on the Prize which goes all the way to 1983. And Judy Richardson's wonderful "Freedom on My Mind."
more important books: Barbara Ransby's "Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement" Jeanne Theoharis "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" and Danielle McGuire "At the Dark End of the Street"
For children: Selma Lord Selma, Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Movement" by Sheyann Webb (the book not the movie, although the movie is fine...)
Lorraine Hansberry "The Movement: A Documentary History" also I gave the incorrect name for Charles Cobb's book. It is "This Nonviolence Stuff'll Get You Killed"
In terms of new books. I can't recommend Vanessa Siddle Walker's "The Lost Education of Horace Tate" enough!!! Teachers were at the center of the movement. (For the legal history, the documentary "The Road to Brown" and Taylor Branch's "Parting the Waters")
Ok, I have to get ready. Hope to post more later. I'm only recommending books I've read or docs I have seen. Of course there are many more wonderful books than what I've read, or what I can think of at the moment, so this is not comprehensive AT ALL.
I also recommend Katherine Charon’s “Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark” And Clark’s memoir “Ready From Within.”
