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![Sing For Freedom](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: CD 660Format: CDProducers: Smithsonian FolkwaysCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Hymns, speeches, spirituals, gospel songs, and prayers...a moving civil rights collection drawn from 1960s field recordings in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The compilation captures the irrepressible spirit of that era and reveals a determined and triumphant African American culture. A collection of glorious songs and heart stopping selections by The SNCC Freedom Singers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and others.
![Freedom Bound](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 728Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Freedom Bound tells the story of the SNCC voter registration campaign in Mississippi in 1963. Through interviews with poor black farmers who risked everything to register to vote, the film conveys the courage, determination and sacrifice which the common people of the South used to help end racial segregation. Containing much of the same interviews as We'll Never Turn Back, this film features rare footage of SNCC volunteers telling their stories of crossing the color line in rural Mississippi.
![We'll Never Turn Back](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 729Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
We'll Never Turn Back was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era. Appearing in the film are Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaders Bob Moses and Julian Bond, as well as local civil rights leaders Curtis Hayes, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe. There are interviews with black farmers and share croppers, including Fannie Lou Hamer, on their experiences (often bloody) trying to register to vote.
![Dream Deferred](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 731Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Dream Deferred was produced by SNCC for its southern voter registration drive in 1964, the year of the Mississippi Summer. It contains interviews with activists, voter registrants and leaders, and features Fannie Lou Hamer's speech, including her famous line: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
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