Links

1. Black Natchez (documentary). 60 minutes.
   • Black Natchez (1967) charts early attempts to organize and register Black voters and the formation of a self-defense group in the Black community. In 1965, filmmaker Ed Pincus and David Neumann spent ten weeks in Natchez, Mississippi, filming the lives of ordinary people with unedited coverage of public and private civil rights organizational meetings, street demonstrations, and contests of power between young militants and the old guard, as well as secret meetings of African American self-defense organizations and interaction among the Black community. The documentary provides opportunities for student projects on political and social history.
2. Project South. Civil Rights activists 1965 interviews
   • During the summer of 1965, eight students from Stanford University spent ten weeks in the southern states tape-recording information on the civil rights movement. Much attention was focused on white civil rights workers, although a great deal of other documentation relevant to black history was also obtained: the interviewers visited over fifty civil rights projects in six states (see appendix) and secured three hundred and thirty hours of recordings, including over two hundred hours of personal interviews. Resources include transcripts and some audio recordings.
   • The interviews provide opportunities for student projects on political and social history.
3. Louisiana Public Broadcasting interview with veterans of the 1963 Plaquemine civil rights movement
4. The Ed Pincus Collection
   • The “Ed Pincus Collection” draws from sixty hours of previously unseen digitized work tapes that filmmaker Ed Pincus made from 1965-1967 during the Civil Rights Movement in Natchez, Mississippi. Instead of narrating the story, Pincus lets ordinary people tell their own stories. The footage highlights rifts in the black community around the demands for equality. Conflicts between teenagers and women on the one hand and the black business community on the other. Conflicts between black males forming armed protection groups and the call for non-violence by the major civil rights groups. And tensions between grassroots organizations and more traditional leadership organizations such as the FDP (Freedom Democratic Party) and the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).” This is an excellent resource for student projects that compare prevailing historical narratives to the perspectives of the historical actors. 242 video clips.