Voices from the South
This collection is comprised of materials from the African-American Civil Rights Movement from 1955-1968. This collection features materials pertaining to Freedom Schools, The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Selma to Montgomery March.
Documents
The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Date: 1/5/1979Call Number: KP 018Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Life of Fannie Lou HamerCollection: Voices from the South
This recording focuses on Fannie Lou Hamer, known as the lady who was "sick and tired of being sick and tired." This is a tribute to her life and work with Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the struggls she engaged in throughout her life.
Interview with woman from Selma, Alabama on election fraud.
Interview with unknown woman on election in Selma, Alabama, “Joe Gotta Go” campaign, voter fraud against African-Americans and tactics to keep their vote from counting.
She recalls Dr. King’s “I stood on the bridge” speech and asks, “Have we made any progress?”
They Know We're There: Pacifica Comes to Mississippi
Date: 8/17/1964Call Number: KP 391Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: Voices from the South
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews reporter Chris Koch who has just returned from 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi on what he witnessed there and the impact on the South of the civil rights movement. (Koch went on to become very prominent in public radio circles).
Southern Conference for Human Welfare
Call Number: KP 430Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Southern Conference for Human WelfareCollection: Voices from the South
Interviews with two leading women in the early southern civil rights movement, on a 1938 conference, in Birmingham Alabama that is considered one of the sparks that led to the growth of the civil rights movement. From 1938 to 1948, the Birmingham-based Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) tried to bring long-overdue New Deal-inspired reforms to the South. In particular, the organization was committed to improving social justice and civil rights and instituting electoral reform in the region by repealing the poll tax. Perhaps the most noteworthy of a number of organizations that grew out of the movement for regional reform in the 1930s, the SCHW folded because of funding problems and charges of harboring Communist sympathies, but it laid the groundwork for future civil rights activism.
No More Tear Gas: The March Into Montgomery
Date: 4/9/1965Call Number: KP 431Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Brooks WalkerProgram: No More Tear Gas: The March Into MontgomeryCollection: Voices from the South
Report on the civil rights march on Montgomery, Alabama. Includes montage of many interviews and sounds of the march.
Selma/Montgomery March - Part 1
Date: 3/15/1965Call Number: KP 432Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Carl BenkertProgram: Selma/Montgomery MarchCollection: Voices from the South
Preparations for the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, includes portions of talks by C.T. Vivian and actuality of a protest vigil, singing on the vigil line, police barricades.
Selma/Montgomery March - Part 2
Date: 3/15/1965Call Number: KP 433Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Carl BenkertProgram: Selma/Montgomery MarchCollection: Voices from the South
Memorial service for Reverend James Reeb, who was killed several days earlier (March 11, 1965) by segregationists. He was a white Unitarian minister from Boston.
Selma/Montgomery March - Parts 3 and 4
Date: 3/15/1965Call Number: KP 434Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Carl BenkertProgram: Selma/Montgomery MarchCollection: Voices from the South
Memorial service for Reverend James Reeb continues, including eulogy delivered by Martin Luther King.
Selma/Montgomery March - Parts 5 and 6
Date: 3/16/1965Call Number: KP 435Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Carl BenkertProgram: Selma/Montgomery MarchCollection: Voices from the South
First Baptist church, including news about injured demonstrators, detailed information on how "Negroes" are prevented from voting, instructions for marching, confrontation with police and marchers reentry to church, singing, including 4-minute version of "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round."
Selma/Montgomery March - Parts 7 and 8
Date: 3/16/1965Call Number: KP 436Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Carl BenkertProgram: Selma/Montgomery MarchCollection: Voices from the South
Begins in church as marchers organize, confrontation with police, then many songs lasting into the night, with improvised verses, many of the most well-known songs. "Sick and Tired" by Reverend Milton Reed, and talk on the Montgomery movement by Andrew Young.
