Voting Rights

Learning Toolkit Resources

Freedom Songs

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around

SNCC Freedom Singers

Ella’s Song

Resistance Revival Chorus


Engage with the Sources: COFO Freedom Registration Pamphlet & The Mississippi Voter Registration Form


Engage with the Sources: “To Overcome Fear” by Charles McLaurin


Charles McLaurin, “To Overcome Fear.” Social Action Vertical File, Box 47, Folder 15, Wisconsin Historical Society.


Engage with the Sources: The Power of Your Vote


Bibliography

Block, Sam. Profile. SNCC Digital Gateway, SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University.

Field, Connie, and Marilyn Mulford. Freedom on My Mind. Berkeley, CA: Clarity Educational Films, 1994.

Hamer, Fannie Lou. Credentials Committee Speech. Aug. 1964, SNCC Legacy Project. Accessed June 20, 2024.

Hamer, Fannie Lou. “To Praise Our Bridges.” The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader, ed. Clayborne Carson et al. 178-79. New York: Penguin, 1991.

Moses, Bob. “Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture on June 2, 2014.” Journal of Mississippi History, LXXXIII (no. 1 and no, 2, Spring/ Summer, 2022), 3.

Moses, Bob. Letter to Jane Stembridge, Aug. 22, 1960, SNCC Papers, in personal collection of Emilye Crosby.

Payne, Charles. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Black Freedom Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Sellers, Cleveland, with Robert Terrell. The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC. Jackson: University of Mississippi, reprint edition, 1990.

SNCC Voter Education Project Proposal in James Forman, Making of Black Revolutionaries. Seattle: University of Washington, reprint 1997, 269.

Resources:

Bond, Julian. “What We Did.” Monthly Review, Oct. 2000.

Crosby, Emilye, and Judy Richardson. “Voting Rights Beyond the Headlines.” Teaching for Change.