
Books
Books by SCOPE and SCLC Staff on working in the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Echo in My Soul
Clark, Septima
Dutton, 1962.

Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement,
Clark, Septima Poinsette and Brown, Cynthia Stokes
Africa World Press, 1990

Eating Dr. King’s Dinner: A Memoir of the Movement, 1963-1966
Fager, Charles
Kimo Press, 2005

Selma 1965, the March that Changed the South
Fager, Charles
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974

Uncertain Resurrection: the Poor People’s Washington Campaign
Fager, Charles
William Erdmans Publishing, 1969

My Eyes Have Seen
Fitch, Bob and Berrigan, Daniel
San Francisco : Glide Publications, 1972. 146 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 x 28 cm

This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight
Gitin, Maria
Tuscaloosa AL: University of Alabama Press, 2014

The Selma Voting Rights Struggle and March to Montgomery
Hartford, Bruce
Westwind Writers, 2014. Print and Kindle editions

You Came Here to Die, Didn’t You: Registering Black Voters One Soul at a Time
Labedis, Sherie Holbrook
South Carolina, 1965, Rosehill CA: Smokey Hill Books, 2011.

In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma
LaFayette, Bernard and Johnson, Kathryn Lee
University Press of Kentucky, 2013

The Lake Effect: The 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam Conflict Tested the Common Core Values of Two Brothers
Monnie, Terry and Bill
Merrimack, NH: A Snowy Day Distribution and Publishing, 2014. Contains 1965 SCOPE reports to Atlanta on pp. 125-156.

If White Kids Die
​Reavis, Dick J.
Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 2001.

The Fight for Freedom: A Memoir of My Years in the Civil Rights Movement
Reynolds, John
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2012.

My Summer Vacation 1965
Swope, Mary
Self-published, 2011

Hope’s Kids: A Voting Rights Summer
Venable, Alan
San Francisco, CA: One Monkey Books, 2017

An Easy Burden: the Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
Young, Andrew
Harper Collins, 1996
​Works-in-progress
1965 SCOPE volunteers urge youth to keep civil rights momentum going, Page 1 - Montgomery