BOB MOSES, “SPEECH AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY” (24 APRIL 1964)

Suggested Readings

Burner, Eric R. And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi.  New York: New York University Press, 1994.

Carmichael, Stokely, and Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture). New York: Scribners, 2003.

Carson, Clayborne, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South. New York: Vintage, 1991.

Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Jensen, Richard J., and John C. Hammerback, “‘Your Tools Really Are the People’: The Rhetoric of Robert Parris Moses.” Communication Monographs 65 (1998): 126-40.

Jensen, Richard J., and John C. Hammerback, “Working in ‘Quiet Places’: The Community Organizing Rhetoric of Robert Parris Moses.” The Howard Journal of Communication 11 (2000): 1-18

Lawson, William H. No Small Thing: The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2018.

Mills, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.

Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Laurel, 1968.

Orth, Nikki. “Ella Baker: Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally (January 21, 1964). Voices of Democracy 11 (2016): 25-43.

Payne, Bruce. I’ve Got The Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

Powdermaker, Hortense. After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

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

Sinsheimer, Joseph A. “The Freedom Vote of 1963: New Strategies of Protest in Mississippi.” Journal of Southern History 55 (1989): 217-44.

Visser-Maessen, Laura. Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots.  Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Watson, Bruce. Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy. New York: Penguin 2011.

Audio-Visual Materials

1962 Special Report: Mississippi and the 15th Amendment, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq1DwnTuBRg

1964 NBC News Special Report: Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzOH9vIW5J8

Eyes on the Prize, Mississippi: Is This America? Episode 5, 1987.

Freedom On My Mind, California Newsreel, 1994.

Oral History with Bob Moses, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47_A1U4vbFk

Oral History with Bob Moses, Freedom Summer, Part I, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttaS4OTxBU0

Oral History with Bob Moses, Freedom Summer, Part II, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny5vhHidAaU

Oral History with Bob Moses, Freedom Summer, Part III, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD6341pmv0Q

Oral History with Bob Moses, conducted by Julian Bond, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lebuaHS3-DI

Revisiting the Murder of Louis Allen, 60 Minutes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6EvTIoHis

Segregation and the South, Fund for the Republic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfgQdCld3Fg

Online Resources

Freedom Summer Digital Collection, Miami of Ohio, https://digital.lib.miamioh.edu/digital/collection/fstxt/search

Freedom Summer Digital Collection, Wisconsin Historical Society, https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll2

Freedom Summer, The National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/vote/freedom-summer

Records of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, https://da.mdah.ms.gov/sovcom/

The Stanford Daily Archives, https://archives.stanforddaily.com/