Freedom Song Collection (T/002)

Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Freedom Song Collection (T/002).
Creator/Collector: Robert Parris "Bob" Moses; and others.
Date(s): 1941-2000.
Size: 16.32 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: Tougaloo College staff and Clarence Hunter; MDAH staff, 2005; 2026.
Provenance: Loan of Tougaloo College of Madison County, MS, in 2004.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research. Boxes 8-10 contain Audio-Visual Material (Series 4) and is unavailable at this time for viewing due to equipment and fragility of the recording.  Discuss with curator to determine if viewing is possible or if digitization in-house or by a vendor is possible, depending on fragility of the recording and availability of vendors. Cost of digitization will be the responsibility of the patron.  Boxes 11-15 are restricted and contain duplicate materials found elsewhere in the collection.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to Tougaloo College. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to MDAH Reference Services, Attention: Tougaloo College Civil Rights Collection. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Tougaloo College as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: Freedom Song Collection (T/002), Tougaloo College Civil Rights Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

History:

Freedom Song

Freedom Song was a film project by director Phil Alden Robinson. Originally titled, “Mississippi Project,” Robinson wanted to make a film documenting the work of civil rights activist Robert Parris "Bob" Moses. However Moses convinced Robinson that he should focus his attention on the people who provided food and housing to the civil rights workers. Robinson talked with former members of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), gathering stories that would be worked into the film. Moses and another movement veteran, Charles F. "Chuck" McDew assisted Robinson in developing the screenplay. Turner Network Television financed the film, which premiered on the network in February of 2000.

Scope and Content Note:

This collection contains the extensive research done in preparation for the writing and filming of Freedom Song. The material includes background material on Civil Rights veterans, interview transcripts of workshops held by the filmmakers, background material on Mississippi and the Civil Rights struggle in Mississippi, newspaper and magazine articles, and book excerpts. Also included in the collection are correspondence and reports from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and from Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Of particular focus in the research is material dealing with the events that happened in McComb, Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, including the beating of Bob Moses, SNCC representative. Included in the collection is a scene schedule notebook for The Mississippi Project, a working title for the movie that became Freedom Song. The collection spans the years 1959-1998.

The audio-visual portion of this collection consists of video and audio tapes of workshops and interviews done as research for the film, Smithsonian audio tapes, video and audio tapes of the movie and other visual and audio material. The material is from 1961-2000, with the bulk of the material from 1990-1991.  Please note, the audio-visual portion of this collection is unavailable for viewing due to equipment and fragility of the recording.  Discuss with curator to determine if viewing is possible or if digitization in-house or by a vendor is possible, depending on fragility of the recording and availability of vendors. Cost of digitization will be the responsibility of the patron.

Series Identification:

Series 1: Interviews and background material.
Subseries 1.1: Individual histories. Arranged alphabetically by subject. 1960-1990; n.d.
Box 1, folders 1-33

Subseries 1.2: Transcripts of Interviews. 1990-1991.
Box 1, folders 34-45

Series 2: Research.
Subseries 2.1: Court Cases and Government Documents. 1960-1991; n.d.
Box 2, folders 1-17

Subseries 2.2: Mississippi Background Information. 1961-1995; n.d.
Box 2, folders 18-37

Subseries 2.3: NAACP Papers. 1959-1962.
Box 2, folders 38-46

Subseries 2.4: SNCC Material. 1960-1990; n.d.
Box 2, folders 47-55

Subseries 2.5: Articles. 1960-1994; n.d.
Box 2, folders 56-78

Subseries 2.6: Chronological Research. 1961.
Box 3, folders 1-4

Subseries 2.7: McComb Enterprise-Journal. 1961-1964.
Box 3, folders 5-11

Subseries 2.8: Book Excerpts. 1963-1998.
Box 3, folders 12-44

Box 4, folders 1-7

Subseries 2.9: General Research. 1953-1994; n.d.
Box 4, folders 8-23

Box 5, folders 1-4

Subseries 2.10: Indexes. 1983-1994; n.d.
Box 5, folders 5-8

Subseries 2.11: Photocopied books. 1989-1990.
Box 5, folders 9-11

Subseries 2.12: Published material. 1977-1995.
Box 6, folders 1-5

Series 3: Oversized Material. 1994.
The Mississippi Project, scene schedule notebook, 1994.

Box 7

Series 4: Audio Visual Material. 1961-2000. (Restricted)
Audio-Visual Material (Series 4) is unavailable at this time for viewing due to equipment and fragility of the recording.  Discuss with curator to determine if viewing is possible or if digitization in-house or by a vendor is possible, depending on fragility of the recording and availability of vendors. Cost of digitization will be the responsibility of the patron.

Boxes 8-10

Series 5: Duplicate Material. (Restricted)
This series contains material located elsewhere in the collection.  Because the collection is owned by Tougaloo College, any duplicate material was not disposed but removed to the end of the collection to ease research without excessive identical copies.

Boxes 10-15

Box List:

Box 1, Folder 1: Louis Allen: Reports and article, n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 2: Ella Baker: Interview, Howard University, 1968. 
Box 1, Folder 3: James Bevel: Articles, interview, and reports, 1963-1966; n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 4: Travis Britt: Interview, Howard University, 1968. 
Box 1, Folder 5: Dion Diamond: Interview, Howard University, 1967. 
Box 1, Folder 6: John Doar: Interview notes, 1990. 
Box 1, Folder 7: Fannie Lou Hamer: Interview, Howard University, 1968. 
Box 1, Folder 8: Fannie Lou Hamer: Interview, University of Southern Mississippi, 1977. 
Box 1, Folder 9: Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony, Congressional Record, 1964; n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 10: Vincent Harding: Interview notes, 1990. 
Box 1, Folder 11: Curtis Hayes: Interview notes, 1990. 
Box 1, Folder 12: June Johnson: Article (partial), Mississippi Black Paper, n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 13: June Johnson: Salzmann, Steven George. Beyond Freedom Songs: The Life Story of a Mississippi Civil Rights Worker. Thesis. 1990. 
Box 1, Folder 14: Mary Lane: Interview, Howard University, 1969. 
Box 1, Folder 15: Nathaniel Lewis: Interview, University of Southern Mississippi, 1981. 
Box 1, Folder 16: Charles F. McDew: Background information: Articles, 1990; n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 17: Charles F. McDew: Interview, Howard University, 1967. 
Box 1, Folder 18: Ruby Magee: Background information: Newspaper articles, 1962-1987; n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 19: Ruby Magee: Interview, University of Southern Mississippi, 1973. 
Box 1, Folder 20: Ruby Magee: Interview, University of Southern Mississippi, 1985. 
Box 1, Folder 21: Amzie Moore, Interview, University of Southern Mississippi, 1981. 
Box 1, Folder 22: Amzie Moore: Papers, with index, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1941-1970. 
Box 1, Folder 23: Bob Moses: Biographical information and conscientious objector status information, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1962; n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 24: Bob Moses: Correspondence, SNCC papers, 1961; n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 25: Bob Moses: Correspondence, SNCC papers, 1963. 
Box 1, Folder 26: Bob Moses: Correspondence, SNCC papers, 1964. 
Box 1, Folder 27: Bob Parris Moses: Interview, n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 28: Jane Stembridge: Correspondence, SNCC papers, 1960. 
Box 1, Folder 29: Jane Stembridge: Correspondence, SNCC papers, 1961; n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 30: Brenda Travis: Autobiography with correspondence, SNCC papers, 1962. 
Box 1, Folder 31: Hollis Watkins: Interview, Howard University, n.d. 
Box 1, Folder 32: Miscellaneous biographical speeches: John Lewis, James Farmer, and James Forman, 1960-1963. 
Box 1, Folder 33: Miscellaneous interviews: P. A. R. [Phil A. Robinson?] notes: McComb notes and notes of conversation with Bob Moses, 1990. 
Box 1, Folder 34: History Workshop transcripts: Notebook #1, reels 1-11, 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 35: History Workshop transcripts: Notebook #1, reels 12-21, 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 36: History Workshop transcripts: Notebook #1, reels 22-33, 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 37: History Workshop transcripts: Notebook #2, reels 12-14, 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 38: History Workshop transcripts: Notebook #2, reels 15-18, 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 39: History Workshop transcripts: Notebook #2, reels 19-21, 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 40: History Workshop transcripts: Notebook #3, reels 22-25, 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 41: History Workshop transcripts: Notebook #3, reels 26-29, 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 42: History Workshop transcripts: Notebook #3, reels 30-33, 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 43: Index to Hi-8 mm tapes recorded by Doug Harris, August 1990-January 1991. 
Box 1, Folder 44: Mississippi interviews: Transcripts of tapes 1-10, with index, 1990. 
Box 1, Folder 45: Mississippi interviews: Transcripts of tapes 11-24, 1990. 
 

Box 2, Folder 1: Boynton v. Virginia, Supreme Court case, 1960. 
Box 2, Folder 2: Civil Rights hearings before Congress, May-August 1963. 
Box 2, Folder 3: Civil Rights laws, n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 4: Court dockets: Hollis Watkins and Curtis Hayes, 1960-1961. 
Box 2, Folder 5: Freedom of Information Act (Federal Bureau of Investigation): Louis Allen material, with correspondence, 1964; 1991; n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 6: Freedom of Information Act (Federal Bureau of Investigation): Index of material, 1991. 
Box 2, Folder 7: Freedom of Information Act (Federal Bureau of Investigation): Material for 1961, with correspondence, folder 1, 1961; 1988-1990.
Box 2, Folder 8: Freedom of Information Act (Federal Bureau of Investigation): Material for 1961, folder 2, 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 9: Freedom of Information Act (Federal Bureau of Investigation): Material for 1962, 1962-1963. 
Box 2, Folder 10: Moses v. Mississippi court documents: Assignment of Error, 1962; 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 11: Moses v. Mississippi court documents: Brief for Appellant, 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 12: Moses v. Mississippi court documents: Brief of Appellee, 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 13: Moses v. Mississippi court documents: Case file from NAACP files, with correspondence, 1961-1964; 1994; n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 14: Moses v. Mississippi court documents: Court transcript, 1962. 
Box 2, Folder 15: Moses v. Mississippi court documents: Court transcript, 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 16: United States Commission on Civil Rights, Jackson, Mississippi, 1965. 
Box 2, Folder 17: United States Commission on Civil Rights. “Voting in Mississippi.” Report. 1965. 
Box 2, Folder 18: 1961 movie advertisements from McComb Enterprise-Journal, 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 19: Affidavits, Pike County, 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 20: Assorted articles on Mississippi in the summer of 1964, 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 21: FBI information on bombings, 1963-1964: Correspondence, 1963-1965. 
Box 2, Folder 22: Freedom Summer 1964: Correspondence, fact sheet, and retrospective, 1964; 1989. 
Box 2, Folder 23: “The General Condition of the Mississippi Negro.” SNCC document, 1963. 
Box 2, Folder 24: “Genocide in Mississippi.” Article from SNCC papers. 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 25: Gugliotta, Guy. “Nation’s Crop of Black Farmers is Dying Out.” Washington Post, n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 26: McComb bombings 1964: Correspondence, 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 27: McComb material, reports on events, 1961-1965; n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 28: Mills, Nicolaus. “Lasting Commitment.” Article. n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 29: Miscellaneous articles, interviews and notes, 1961-1995; n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 30: Mississippi musicians, list with correspondence from Mississippi Film Office, 1990. 
Box 2, Folder 31: “The Mississippi Power Structure.” Report. n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 32: “Mississippi: Subversion of the Right to Vote.” Article from SNCC papers. n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 33: Mississippi Summer Project, pamphlet, n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 34: Mississippi weather data for 1961-1962; 1982; 1994; n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 35: Perdew, John. “How the Civil Rights Bill is Being Subverted in Mississippi.” SNCC Research Paper. 1965.
Box 2, Folder 36: SNCC documents and notes, 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 37: Zinn, Howard. “Schools in Context: The Mississippi Idea.” Article from SNCC papers. 1964.
Box 2, Folder 38: “Amite County Files,” correspondence, 1959-1961. 
Box 2, Folder 39: “Freedom Riders,” correspondence, 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 40: General Correspondence: Jack Young, Robert Carter, and Medgar Evers, 1961-1962. 
Box 2, Folder 41: “McComb Files,” correspondence, 1959-1961. 
Box 2, Folder 42: Medgar Evers reports, 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 43: Medgar Evers correspondence, 1961-1962. 
Box 2, Folder 44: Mississippi Free Press: Articles, 2 June 1962. 
Box 2, Folder 45: “Mississippi Pressures,” correspondence, 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 46: Operation Mississippi: Fundraising material and correspondence, 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 47: Forman, Jim. “What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.” Report. 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 48: Information about SNCC from King Library and Archives, 1960-1961; n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 49: Miscellaneous SNCC information and pamphlets, 1961-1963; n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 50: “A Project to Attack Illiteracy Through Programmed Learning.” Report. n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 51: Reports and correspondence, 1961-1963; 1990; n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 52: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): Meeting minutes, 1960-1963. 
Box 2, Folder 53: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): Meeting minutes, 14-16 July 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 54: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): Minutes of executive committee meeting, including handwritten version, 11-13 August 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 55: “A Tribute to SNCC on its Fifth Birthday.” Performance script. n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 56: Bagdikian, Ben H. “Negro Youth’s New March on Dixie.” Saturday Evening Post, 8 September 1962. 
Box 2, Folder 57: Baker, Robert E. “Negroes Promote White Merchant Boycott in Miss.” Washington Post, 22 October 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 58: Bennett, Lerone, Jr. “SNCC: Rebels with a Cause.” 1965. 
Box 2, Folder 59: Braden, Anne. “The Southern Freedom Movement in Perspective.” Monthly Review, July-August 1965. 
Box 2, Folder 60: Carter, Barbara. “The Fifteenth Amendment Comes to Mississippi.” The Reporter, 17 January 1963. 
Box 2, Folder 61: Carter III, Hodding. “Citadel of the Citizens Council.” New York Times Magazine, 12 November 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 62: Feagens, Janet. “Voting, Violence and Walkout in McComb.” New South, October 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 63: Hayden, Tom and Bob Zellner. “The Children of McComb.” n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 64: Jetter, Alexis. “We Shall Overcome, This Time with Algebra.” New York Times Magazine, 21 February 1993. 
Box 2, Folder 65: Martin, Harold H. and Kenneth Fairly. “The Ku Klux Klan: We Got Nothing To Hide.” Saturday Evening Post, 30 January 1965. 
Box 2, Folder 66: Mattison, Mike. “Return to Jackson.” Saint Paul Pioneer Press Express, 3 July 1994. 
Box 2, Folder 67: McMillen, Neil R. “Black Enfranchisement in Mississippi: Federal Enforcement and Black Protest in the 1960s.” The Journal of Southern History, August 1977. 
Box 2, Folder 68: Moses, Bob. “Mississippi: 1961-1962.” Liberation, 14 January 1970. 
Box 2, Folder 69: Moses, Robert P. et al. “The Algebra Project: Organizing in the Spirit of Ella.” Harvard Educational Review, November 1989. 
Box 2, Folder 70: Searles, Ruth and J. Allen Williams, Jr. “Negro College Students’ Participation in Sit-Ins.” Abstract. Social Forces, 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 71: Trillin, Calvin. “Letter from Jackson.” The New Yorker, 29 August 1964. 
Box 2, Folder 72: “Contributing to Delinquency.” Time, 20 October 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 73: “Dilemma in Mississippi.” Life International, 7 May 1962. 
Box 2, Folder 74: “Mississippi: A Chronology of Violence and Intimidation in Mississippi since 1961.” n.d. 
Box 2, Folder 75: Jet articles, 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 76: New South articles, 1961-1962. 
Box 2, Folder 77: New York Times articles, 1961. 
Box 2, Folder 78: Southern Patriot articles, 1960-1963.
 

Box 3, Folder 1: Notebook contents, July 1960-August 28, 1961. 
Box 3, Folder 2: Notebook contents, August 29-September 24, 1961. 
Box 3, Folder 3: Notebook contents, September 25-October 4, 1961. 
Box 3, Folder 4: Notebook contents, October 6-December 6, 1961. 
Box 3, Folder 5: Articles, 1961. 
Box 3, Folder 6: Articles, 1962. 
Box 3, Folder 7: Articles, 1963. 
Box 3, Folder 8: Articles, 1964. Folder 1. 
Box 3, Folder 9: Articles, 1964. Folder 2. 
Box 3, Folder 10: Articles, 1964. Folder 3. 
Box 3, Folder 11: Editorials, 1961. 
Box 3, Folder 12: Albert, Peter J. and Ronald Hoffman. We Shall Overcome. “Robert Parris Moses.” [1990], 69-76. 
Box 3, Folder 13: Blumberg, Rhoda Lois. Civil Rights: The 1960s Freedom Struggle. Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, 1991, 71-109. 
Box 3, Folder 14: Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters. [1988], 324-921. 
Box 3, Folder 15: Brooks, Thomas R. Walls Come Tumbling Down: A History of the Civil Rights Movement 1940-1970. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1974, 146-246. 
Box 3, Folder 16: Burns, W. Haywood. The Voices of Negro Protest in America. London: Oxford University Press, 1963, 36-61. 
Box 3, Folder 17: Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. [1981], 19-117. 
Box 3, Folder 18: Carson, Clayborne, et al., eds. The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader. London: Penguin books, 1991, 114-86. 
Box 3, Folder 19: Carter, Hodding and Reinhold Niebuhr. Mississippi Black Paper. [1965], 1-91. 
Box 3, Folder 20: Cohen, Mitchell and Dennis Hale, eds. The New Student Left: An Anthology. [1969], 43-97. 
Box 3, Folder 21: Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. [1994], 98-115. 
Box 3, Folder 22: Eagles, Charles W. The Civil Rights Movement in America. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1986, 65-97. 
Box 3, Folder 23: Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries. [1972], 215-287. 
Box 3, Folder 24: Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross. 1987, 162-167. 
Box 3, Folder 25: Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties. 1987, 127-170. 
Box 3, Folder 26: Grant, Joanne. Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses; 1619 to the Present. 1986, 272-403. 
Box 3, Folder 27: Hampton, Henry. Voices of Freedom. 1990, 177-207. 
Box 3, Folder 28: Hayden, Tom. Reunion. 1988, 53-66; 493-396. 
Box 3, Folder 29: Kagin, Seth and Phillip Dray. We Are Not Afraid. 1988, 49; 86-69; 158-194; 226-228; 268. 
Box 3, Folder 30: Lawson, Steven. Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South. 1976, 260-275. 
Box 3, Folder 31: Lewis, Anthony. Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution. 1965, 91-237. 
Box 3, Folder 32: Marable, Manning. Race, Reform and Rebellion. 1984, 66-94. 
Box 3, Folder 33: Meier, August, Elliot Rudwick, and John Bracey, Jr. Black Protest in the Sixties. 1991, 139-153; 262-276; 364. 
Box 3, Folder 34: Newfield, Jack. A Prophetic Minority. 1970, 37-61. 
Box 3, Folder 35: Newfield, Jack. The Education of Jack Newfield. 1984, 161-169. 
Box 3, Folder 36: O’Reilly, Kenneth. Racial Matters. 1989, 49-76. 
Box 3, Folder 37: Peeks, Edward. The Long Struggle for Black Power. 1971, 340-361. 
Box 3, Folder 38: Powledge, Fred. Free at Last: The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It. 1991, 294-332. 
Box 3, Folder 39: Raines, Howell. My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. 1983, 223-293. 
Box 3, Folder 40: Seeger, Pete and Bob Reiser. Everybody Says Freedom. 1990, 141-181. 
Box 3, Folder 41: Sellers, Cleveland. River of No Return. 1990, 3-66. 
Box 3, Folder 42: Silver, James W. Mississippi: The Closed Society. 1964, 339-344. 
Box 3, Folder 43: Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality. 1998, 66-117; 156-157; 237-245. 
Box 3, Folder 44: Stoper, Emily. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Growth of Radicalism in a Civil Rights Organization. 1989, 8-40; 81-108; 176-196.
 

Box 4, Folder 1: Sugarman, Tracy. Stranger at the Gates: A Summer in Mississippi. 1966, 1-23; 70-75; 178-183. 
Box 4, Folder 2: Taulbert, Clifton L. Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored. 1989, 1-153. 
Box 4, Folder 3: Warren, Robert Penn. Who Speaks for the Negro? 1965, 49. 
Box 4, Folder 4: Watters, Pat. Down to Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement. 1971, 127-138; 152-155; 300-301; 308; 341; 402-404. 
Box 4, Folder 5: Weisbrot, Robert. Freedom Bound: A History of America’s Civil Rights Movement. 1990, 18; 34-41; 94-97; 110-112; 186-189. 
Box 4, Folder 6: Westin, Alan F. ed. Freedom Now! The Civil Rights Struggle in America. 1964, 95-103. 
Box 4, Folder 7: Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists. 1985, 62-123. 
Box 4, Folder 8: Articles on the Civil Rights era, newsprint publication, incomplete, n.d. 
Box 4, Folder 9: Calendar of Mississippi Civil Rights events in 1961, n.d. 
Box 4, Folder 10: Correspondence from Jay Jacobsen, a soldier in Viet Nam; excerpt from An American Melodrama, Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson and Bruce Page, 1969; The Making of the President 1968, Theodore H. White, 1973; with correspondence, 1968-1973; 1990. 
Box 4, Folder 11: Doar, John and Dorothy Landsberg. The Performance of the FBI in Investigating Violations of Federal Laws Protecting the Right to Vote, 1960-1967. Report. 1971. 
Box 4, Folder 12: Ebony: Magazine indexes, 1953; 1956; 1959; 1961. 
Box 4, Folder 13: Fellowship of Reconciliation, How to Practice Nonviolence, pamphlet, 1962. 
Box 4, Folder 14: Fellowship of Reconciliation: Pamphlets and flyers, 1961-1994. 
Box 4, Folder 15: Hayden, Tom. “From a Georgia Jail: In the Cause of Freedom.” Article. n.d. 
Box 4, Folder 16: Matt Herron photographs: Catalog, correspondence, and contact sheets, 1990-1994; n.d. 
Box 4, Folder 17: Holland, Endesha Ida Mae. “Memories of the Mississippi Delta.” Memoirs. n.d. 
Box 4, Folder 18: Mississippi Community Foundation: Correspondence, 1991. 
Box 4, Folder 19: Photographs: Current Mississippi, including photographs of Phil Robinson (director), Bob Moses and June Johnson, 1990. 
Box 4, Folder 20: Research notes and collected material on Bob Zellner and Oliver Emmerich, 1978-1990; n.d. 
Box 4, Folder 21: Smith, Frank. Field reports, SNCC field secretary, n.d. 
Box 4, Folder 22: Smithsonian Institution. Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966. Catalog. 1980. 
Box 4, Folder 23: Spraggins, Tinsley L. “Organizing and Conducting a Voter Registration Drive.” Report. n.d.
 

Box 5, Folder 1: SNCC Benefit Program, Sidney Poitier: Correspondence, 1963. 
Box 5, Folder 2: “They Kept the Story Before Me: Families and Traditions.” Chapter Five of unnamed manuscript. n.d. 
Box 5, Folder 3: Unnamed thesis with references to SNCC, incomplete, n.d. 
Box 5, Folder 4: Voter Education Project: Article and proposal, 1959; n.d. 
Box 5, Folder 5: Behrd-Klodt, Menzi L. and Carolyn J. Mattern. Social Action Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: A Guide. Catalog. 1983. 
Box 5, Folder 6: Kagin, Seth and Phillip Dray. We Are Not Afraid. Bibliography and notes. 1988, 555-581. 
Box 5, Folder 7: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Papers 1959-1972, index, King Library and Archives, n.d. 
Box 5, Folder 8: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Papers, 1959-1972: a guide to the Microfilm Edition. Index. 1994. 
Box 5, Folder 9: Carson, Clayborne, ed. The Student Voice 1960-1965: Periodical of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. 1990. Folder 1. 
Box 5, Folder 10: Carson, Clayborne, ed. The Student Voice 1960-1965: Periodical of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. 1990. Folder 2. 
Box 5, Folder 11: Seeger, Pete and Bob Reiser. Everybody Says Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1989.

Box 6, Folder 1: First Run/Icarus Films. Catalog. 1995. 
Box 6, Folder 2: The New National Baptist Hymnal, Special Edition. 1977. 
Box 6, Folder 3: Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore. Michael S. Durham. 1991. 
Box 6, Folder 4: Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through its Songs. Guy and Candie Carawan. 1992. 
Box 6, Folder 5: The Whole Folkways Catalogue. Smithsonian/Folkways. 1991.
 

Box 7: The Mississippi Project, scene schedule notebook, 1994.
 

(Restricted)

Box 8, Item 1: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Morning session. Workshop #1. Vincent Harding, facilitator. McComb, pre-SNCC, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 2: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #1. McComb, pre-SNCC. Vincent Harding, facilitator, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 3: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #1. McComb, pre-SNCC. Vincent Harding, facilitator, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 4: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #1. McComb, pre-SNCC. Vincent Harding, facilitator, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 5: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Morning session. Workshop #1. Vincent Harding, facilitator. McComb, pre-SNCC, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 6: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #1. Vincent Harding, facilitator. McComb, pre-1961. Workshop #2. SNCC Chuck McDew, facilitator, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 7: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #2. SNCC. Chuck McDew, facilitator. Charles Jones, re: Formation of SNCC, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 8: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #2. SNCC. Chuck McDew, facilitator. Charles Jones, continued. Diane Nash, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 9: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #2. SNCC. Chuck McDew, facilitator. Charles Jones. James Forman. Marion Barry. C. Jones. D. Nash. Curtis, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 10: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: After dinner. SNCC re: Kennedys, King, and voter registration. Marion Barry, Diane Nash, Chuck McDew, C. Jones, Curtis, Bob Moses, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 11: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Evening workshop. Re: Arrests, etc. Bob Moses, C. C. Brown, Chuck McDew, Curtis Hayes, 27 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 12: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Goodnight Song. 27 June1991.Workshop #3 Vincent Harding, facilitator. 1. Song 2. Joe Lewis 3. Ann Harris 4. Doris U— 5. Unita Blackburn 6. Marion Barry 7. Rev. Scott 8. Jerelyn Austin, 28 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 13: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #3. First registration period. Vincent Harding, facilitator. Bob Moses, Phil R., C. C. Bryant, Hollis’ sister, Doris Upkins, Hollis, 28 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 14: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #3. First voter registration. Vincent Harding, facilitator. Rev. Scott, Johnnie Wilshire, Jacqueline Bird, Freddie Beatts, Curtis Hayes, Sarah Cotton, Mrs. Bivens, Joe Morton ?, Caroline Quinn, Joe Lewis, Bobby Talbort, 28 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 15: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #3. First voter registration. Vincent Harding, facilitator. Mrs. Givens (Bivens?), Hollis Watkins, 28 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 16: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #3. First voter registration. Vincent Harding, facilitator. Curtis Hayes, Hollis Watkins, Jacqueline Bird, MacArthur?, Hollis Watkins, Joe Lewis, Phil R., Reggie Robinson, --- Chester, 28 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 17: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #3. First voter registration. Vincent Harding, facilitator. Doris Upkins, Hollis Watkins, Joe Lewis, Johnnie Wilcher, Mrs. Williams, Robert Talbort, Caroline Quinn, Ruby McGee, Bob Moses, Ann Harris, C. Quinn, Diane Nash, Joe Lewis, Joe Morton, Mrs. Quinn, Marion Barry, Hollis Watkins, 28 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 18: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #4. Student sit-ins/walk-outs. Hollis Watkins, Marion Barry, Diane Nash, Curtis Hayes, Hollis & Curtis, Marion Barry, 28 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 19: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #4. Student sit-ins/walk-outs. Chuck McDew, facilitator. Curtis. Hollis & Marion Barry on arrests and jail. Brenda Travis and Bobbie Talbort re: Woolworth’s, 28 June1991. 
Box 8, Item 20: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #4. Student sit-ins/walk-outs. Chuck McDew, facilitator. Joe Lewis, Brenda Travis & Joe Martin, Johnnie, Anne, Curtis & Chas. Jones & Bob, 28 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 21: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #4. Student sit-ins/walk-outs. Chuck McDew, facilitator, 28 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 22: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #4. Student sit-ins/walk-outs. Chuck McDew, facilitator, 28 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 23: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Workshop #4. Student sit-ins/walk-outs. Chuck McDew, facilitator. Lawyer (David Dennis) & Bob M. [Moses] talk about universal releases. Class picture, 28 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 24: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Steptoe House. C. C. Bryant. Roosevelt Steptoe, 29 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 25: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Steptoe House. R. Steptoe interview, continued. Workshop #5. Bob Moses, C. C. Bryant, Hilary MacKnight, 29 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 26: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Steptoe House. Workshop #5. Hilary MacKnight, continued. Davis Anderson, Curtis Dawson, Edward Perry, R. Steptoe., 29 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 27: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Steptoe House. Workshop #5. R. Steptoe, continued. E. W. Steptoe, Jr., 29 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 28: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Steptoe House. Afternoon session. Herbert Lee song, Rosa Winding, Queen Esther MacKnight, Rebecca Kinsey, 29 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 29: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Steptoe House, afternoon. Re: H. Lee. Ruby Lee Johnson, Staford Scott, James Forman, 29 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 30: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Steptoe House, afternoon. Re: E. H. Hurst. Emma Mae Walsh, Ruby Lee Johnson, R. Steptoe, Bob Moses, 29 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 31: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Steptoe House, afternoon. Re: H. Lee and growing up in Mississippi. Vincent Harding, Lawrence Guillot, C. C. Bryant, Vincent Harding, Willie Peacock, Mrs. Hudson, L. Guillot, Unita --. n.d. 
Box 8, Item 32: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Steptoe House, afternoon. Re: growing up in Mississippi. Unita --, Charles Jones, Charlie Smith. McComb locations with commentary from Brenda Travis and Bobbie Talbort. n.d. 
Box 8, Item 33: Mississippi Project, Sony Betacam metal tapes: Locations with Brenda Travis and Bobbie Talbort, 30 June 1991. 
Box 8, Item 34: VHS tapes, Lightning Dubbs: Mississippi Project Tape #1, Hollis Watkins, n.d. 
Box 8, Item 35: VHS tapes, Lightning Dubbs: Mississippi Project Tape #2, Chuck McDew, n.d. 
Box 8, Item 36: VHS tapes, Lightning Dubbs: Mississippi Project Tape #3, Charles Jones, n.d. 
Box 8, Item 37: VHS tapes, Lightning Dubbs: Mississippi Project Tape #4, Diane Nash, n.d. 
Box 8, Item 38: VHS tapes, Lightning Dubbs: Mississippi Project Tape #7, Marion Barry, n.d. 
Box 8, Item 39: VHS tapes: Selma Lord Selma, Walt Disney Television, 1999. 
Box 8, Item 40: VHS tapes: MCF [Mississippi Community Foundation]: Founding Conference, 18 November 1990.
 

Box 9, Item 1: VHS tapes: Mississippi Project, reels 1-4, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 2: VHS tapes: Mississippi Project, reels 5-8, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 3: VHS tapes: Mississippi Project, reels 9-12, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 4: VHS tapes: Mississippi Project, reels 13-16, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 5: VHS tapes: Mississippi Project, reel 14, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 6: VHS tapes: Mississippi Project, reels 17-20, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 7: VHS tapes: Mississippi Project, reels 21-24, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 8: VHS tapes: Mississippi Project, reels 25-28, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 9: VHS tapes: Mississippi Project, reels 33, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 10: VHS tapes: “Freedom Summer of ’64,” The Today Show, 1994. 
Box 9, Item 11: VHS tapes: Holmes County “Cotton-scapes,” 1990. 
Box 9, Item 12: VHS tapes: Freedom Song, Turner Broadcasting System, 2 copies, 2000. 
Box 9, Item 13: VHS tapes: Sony video cassette, unlabeled, [ET protection 18 August 1995, possible label], n.d. 
Box 9, Item 14: VHS tapes: Mississippi Contract Signing-Beta, 6 January 1991. 
Box 9, Item 15: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference, #1-3, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 16: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference, #2-3, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 17: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference, #3-3, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 18: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference (Saturday-Sunday), #3-5, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 19: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference, Purpose Committee, #1-4, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 20: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference, Purpose Committee, #2-4, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 21: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference, Rights Committee, #3-4, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 22: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference, #1-5, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 23: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference, Purpose and Rights Committees, #2-5, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 24: Hi-8 tapes, Fuji box: MCF: Founding Conference (Saturday-Sunday), #2-6, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 25: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: MCF: Founding Conference, #1-1, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 26: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: MCF: Founding Conference, #2-1, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 27: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: MCF: Founding Conference, #3-1, 16-17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 28: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: MCF: Founding Conference, #2-2, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 29: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: MCF: Founding Conference, #3-2, 17 November 1990. 
Box 9, Item 30: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: Jackson/Tribute to Hollis, A. Phillip Randolph Institute, #1, 6 October 1990. 
Box 9, Item 31: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: Jackson/Tribute to Hollis, A. Phillip Randolph Institute, #1, 6 October 1990. 
Box 9, Item 32: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: Lincoln Co/Hollis, Chisholm Ch/elder sis, nephew, #2, 24 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 33: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: Lincoln Co/Hollis, bro. “Polk” Watkins, 24 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 34: Hi-8 tapes, Sony box: Lincoln Co/Hollis, bro. Polk and sis Doris, 24 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 35: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: Amite Co., Miss., Steptoe’s, Bob re: Foundation, 9 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 36: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: Amite Co., at Steptoe’s, Bob re: Foundation, 9 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 37: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: Amite Co., Miss., Lee family and Steptoe family, 9 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 38: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: At Lee family, Amite Co., Steptoe Church and eating and cemetery, 9 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 39: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: Highway/Hollis-Malika; Jackson/ Jimmy Travis, #2, 14 August 1990. 
Box 9, Item 40: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: Jackson/ Jimmy Travis, #3, 14 August 1990. 
Box 9, Item 41: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: Liberty/Amite Co., Bob/Steptoe Farm #2, 8 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 42: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: Liberty/Amite Co., Bob/Steptoe Farm #3, 8 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 43: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: McComb/Alyene Quin, #1, 9 August 1990. 
Box 9, Item 44: Hi-8 tapes, Canon box: McComb/CC Bryant, Society Hill Baptist Church, #1, 9 September 1990. 
Box 9, Item 45: Hi-8 tapes: Kosciusko, MS, Coliseum interview: MacA, #4, 12 August 1990. 
Box 9, Item 46: Hi-8 tapes: Kosciusko (Mac’s Fam), Greenwood (Senior’s), #5, 12 August 1990. 
Box 9, Item 47: Hi-8 tapes: Kosciusko, MS, Mac’s church; Reunion at Coliseum, #3, 12 August 1990. 
Box 9, Item 48: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project, #1-3, n.d. 
Box 9, Item 49: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project, #4-7 (corresponds to Betacams). Vincent Harding, facilitator, Workshop #1-McComb pre-SNCC; Workshop #2-SNCC with Chuck McDew, B-side Izeah Bennett interview with Phil, 27 June, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 50: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project (Betacam #7, continued-10). Workshop#2 SNCC, Chuck McDew, facilitator, 27 June 1991. 
Box 9, Item 51: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project, cassette #4, Betacam #10, continued-14, 27-28 June 1991. 
Box 9, Item 52: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project, cassette #5, reels #15-18, 28 June 1991. 
Box 9, Item 53: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project, #6, #18, continued-22, 28 June 1991. 
Box 9, Item 54: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project, 7A & B, #22-27, 28-29 June 1991. 
Box 9, Item 55: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project, reel 24, 2 interviews, n.d. 
Box 9, Item 56: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project, #8 A & B, reels 28-31, 29 June 1991. 
Box 9, Item 57: Audio cassettes: Mississippi Project, #9 A & B, reels 31, continued 33, 29-30 June 1991. 
Box 9, Item 58: Audio cassettes: Children of McComb, Tom Hayden and Robert Zellner, Pacifica Radio Archive, 27 October 1961. 
Box 9, Item 59: Audio cassettes: Amzie Moore, Curtis Hayes and Hollis Watkins, 1963. 
Box 9, Item 60: Computer disk: Mississippi Project, n.d. 
Box 9, Item 61: Zip disk: SNCC graphic, various formats, 2 July 2000. 
Box 9, Item 62: Smithsonian audio cassette tapes: “Almanac Singers, Talking Union,” 1992. 
Box 9, Item 63: Smithsonian audio cassette tapes: “The Story of Greenwood, Mississippi,” recorded and produced by Guy Carawan for S.N.C.C., 1992. 
Box 9, Item 64: Smithsonian audio cassette tapes: “Nashville Sit-in Story: Songs & Scenes of The Nashville Lunch Counter Desegregation,” Guy Carawan, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 65: Smithsonian audio cassette tapes: “The Story of the Lunch-room Sit-ins,” Mr. Edwin Randall, narrator, 1991. 
Box 9, Item 66: Smithsonian audio cassette tapes: “We Shall Overcome: Songs from the Freedom Riders and the Sit-ins,” 1991.
 

Box 10, Item 1: Betacam tapes: TNT Learning Logos, small Betacam tape, n.d. 
Box 10, Item 2: Betacam tapes: We Will Never Turn Back-Beta, 11 July 1994. 
Box 10, Item 3: Betacam tapes: Mississippi Project, Freedom Song documentary, dialogue only, n.d. 
Box 10, Item 4: Betacam tapes: Mississippi Project, Freedom Song documentary, v.o. [voice over] audio only, n.d. 
Box 10, Item 5: Betacam tapes: Mississippi Project, audio tape for v.o. and cassette recordings, n.d. 
Box 10, Item 6: Betacam tapes: Mississippi Project, viewing, n.d. 
Box 10, Item 7: Betacam tapes: Freedom Song, documentary, edited master, n.d.