Teachers with courage (and tenure) could carve out pages 4 through 7 of this collection and give it to students with no context, have them read and generate questions. This is a report of an FBI agent's very candid conversation with the national secretary of the NAACP in November of 1964. It exposes several elements of the Civil Rights movement that are prominent in history, but not in the taught history
This is the raw material of history that never makes it into history classes that could automatically let students know they are on to a different type of experience.
Brief descriptions and links to key documents from the Freedom Summer Project, a nonviolent effort by civil rights activists to integrate Mississippi's segregated political system during 1964.
These records were created from late 1963 through early 1965 by staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), local black residents, northern white volunteers, and segregationist opponents of the project. There are 15 topics that link to approximately 78 documents.
