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Books

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

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Echo in My Soul

Clark, Septima 

Dutton, 1962.

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Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement,

Clark, Septima Poinsette and Brown, Cynthia Stokes

Africa World Press, 1990

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Eating Dr. King’s Dinner: A Memoir of the Movement, 1963-1966

Fager, Charles

Kimo Press, 2005

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Selma 1965, the March that Changed the South

Fager, Charles

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974

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Uncertain Resurrection: the Poor People’s Washington Campaign

Fager, Charles

William Erdmans Publishing, 1969

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My Eyes Have Seen

Fitch, Bob and Berrigan, Daniel

San Francisco : Glide Publications, 1972. 146 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 x 28 cm

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This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight

Gitin, Maria

Tuscaloosa AL: University of Alabama Press, 2014

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The Selma Voting Rights Struggle and March to Montgomery

Hartford, Bruce

Westwind Writers, 2014. Print and Kindle editions

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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.

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In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma

LaFayette, Bernard and Johnson, Kathryn Lee

University Press of Kentucky, 2013

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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.

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If White Kids Die

​Reavis, Dick J.

Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 2001.

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The Fight for Freedom: A Memoir of My Years in the Civil Rights Movement

Reynolds, John

Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2012.

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My Summer Vacation 1965

Swope, Mary

Self-published, 2011

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Hope’s Kids: A Voting Rights Summer

Venable, Alan

San Francisco, CA: One Monkey Books, 2017

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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

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