SCOPE project
Background:
In June 1965, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) launched its first grassroots organizing campaign, the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) program. Under the direction of Hosea Williams, SCOPE aimed to build on the success of the previous year's Freedom Summer campaign by placing nearly five hundred college students in nearly fifty rural, predominately black communities across the South to lead voter registration drives, encourage political activism, and develop adult education programs. Although SCOPE volunteers successfully registered thousands of new voters in locales where federal agents were present, they encountered resistance elsewhere, and failed to meet the expectations of senior SCLC officials. As a result, the program was not renewed the following summer.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American students protesting continued school segregation in Crawfordville, Taliferro County, Georgia, 1965 October 5 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 June (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Chicago as well as current political parties, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 June (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of press conference with Reverend Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Reverend J. R. Campbell of the Sumter County Movement speaking about civil rights demonstrations in Americus, Georgia, 1965 July 26 (Moving images)