Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Fighting for My Rights: One SNCC Woman’s Experience, 1961–1964
From Little Memphis Girl to Mississippi Amazon - Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons aka Gwendolyn Robinson
Part 2. Entering Troubled Waters: Sit-ins, the Founding of SNCC, and the Freedom Rides, 1960–1963
What We Were Talking about Was Our Future - Angeline Butler
An Official Observer - Constance Curry
Onto Open Ground - Casey Hayden
Two Variations on Nonviolence - Mildred Forman Page
A Young Communist Joins SNCC - Debbie Amis Bell
Watching, Waiting, and Resisting - Hellen O’Neal-McCray
Diary of a Freedom Rider - Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
They Are the Ones Who Got Scared - Diane Nash
Part 3. Movement Leaning Posts: The Heart and Soul of the Southwest Georgia Movement, 1961–1963
Ripe for the Picking - Janie Culbreth Rambeau
Finding Form for the Expression of My Discontent - Annette Jones White
Uncovered and Without Shelter, I Joined This Movement for Freedom - Bernice Johnson Reagon
We Turned This Upside-Down Country Right Side Up - Joann Christian Mants
Everybody Called Me “Teach" - McCree L. Harris
I Love to Sing - Rutha Mae Harris
Since I Laid My Burden Down - Bernice Johnson Reagon
We Just Kept Going - Carolyn Daniels
Part 4. Standing Tall: The Southwest Georgia Movement, 1962–1963
It Was Simply in My Blood - Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
Freedom-Faith - Prathia Hall
Resistance U - Faith S. Holsaert
Caught in the Middle - Cathy Cade
Part 5. Get on Board: The Mississippi Movement through the Atlantic City Challenge, 1961–1964
Standing Up for Our Beliefs - Joyce Ladner
Inside and Outside of Two Worlds - Jeannette King
They Didn’t Know the Power of Women - Victoria Gray Adams
Do Whatever You Are Big Enough to Do - Jean Smith Young
Depending on Ourselves - Muriel Tillinghast
A Grand Romantic Notion - Denise Nicholas
If We Must Die - Janet Jemmott Moses
Part 6. Cambridge, Maryland: The Movement under Attack, 1961–1964
The Energy of the People Passing through Me - Gloria Richardson Dandridge
Part 7. A Sense of Family: The National SNCC Office, 1960–1964
Peek around the Mountain - Joanne Grant
My Real Vocation - Dorothy M. Zellner
A SNCC Blue Book - Jane Bond Moore
Getting Out the News - Mary E. King
It’s Okay to Fight the Status Quo - E. Jeanne Breaker Johnson
SNCC: My Enduring “Circle of Trust” - Judy Richardson
Working in the Eye of the Social Movement Storm - Betty Garman Robinson
In the Attics of My Mind - Casey Hayden
Building a New World - Barbara Jones Omolade
Part 8. Fighting Another Day: The Mississippi Movement after Atlantic City, 1964–1966
A Simple Question - Margaret Herring
The Mississippi Cotton Vote - Penny Patch
The Freedom Struggle Was the Flame - Elaine DeLott Baker
An Interracial Alliance of the Poor: An Elusive Populist Fantasy? - Emmie Schrader Adams
We Weren’t the Bad Guys - Barbara Brandt
Sometimes in the Ground Troops, Sometimes in the Leadership - Doris A. Derby
Part 9. The Constant Struggle: The Alabama Movement, 1963–1966
There Are No Cowards in My Family - Annie Pearl Avery
Singing for Freedom - Bettie Mae Fikes
Bloody Selma - Prathia Hall
Playtime Is Over - Fay Bellamy Powell
Captured by the Movement - Martha Prescod Norman Noonan
We’ll Never Turn Back - Gloria House
Letter to My Adolescent Son - Jean Wiley
Part 10. Black Power: Issues of Continuity, Change, and Personal Identity, 1964–1969
Neither Black nor White in a Black-White World - Elizabeth (Betita) Sutherland Martinez
I Knew I Wasn’t White, but in America What Was I? - Marilyn Lowen
Time to Get Ready - Maria Varela
Born Freedom Fighter - Gwen Patton
Postscript: We Who Believe in Freedom
Index