SCOPE project
Background:
On June 14, 1965, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) launched an innovative grassroots organizing campaign, the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project. Under the direction of WW II veteran Hosea Williams, SCOPE sought to build upon the momentum of the Medgar Evers led NAACP in Mississippi, 1964 Freedom Summer, as well as the voting rights stuggle that culminated in the Selma-Montgomery March. The project placed nearly five hundred predominantly white college students in nearly one hundred predominantly black rural and urban areas in Southern states, including: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina to help lead voter registration drives. SCOPE successfully encouraged political activism, reported violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act; along with developing political education programs for some of the counties that the campaign served. Its voter registration drives also flourished: SCOPE volunteers, working with local activists and leaders, and SCLC field staff, registered more than 49,000 new African American voters by the project's official end date on August 28, 1965, with about thirty-five SCOPE volutneers taking positions on the SCLC staff with additional activities continuing in 1966.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- KZSU Project South Interviews (Stanford University Library)
- Bull sessions SCOPE volunteers in Macon, Georgia 0175-76, Discussion of SCLC/s approach, problems of local people (sound recordings)
- Oral history group interview with SCOPE, 0191-0192, 0196 (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history group interview with SCOPE, 0202 (sides 1 and 2), Columbia, South Carolina (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Bruce Hartford, white, male, SCOPE volunteer, 0150 (sides 1 and 2), Laverne, Alabama, Freedom Home (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Calvin Turner, Negro, male, SCOPE project leader, 0272-7 (side 2), Crawfordsville, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Candi Weber, White, female, SCOPE summer volunteer, 0270 (side 2), Crawfordsville, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Carol Johnson, white, female, SCOPE volunteer, 0221-1 (sides 1 and 2), Macon, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Cary Stone, white, female, SCOPE student volunteer, 0227 (sides 1 and 2), Marion, Alabama (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Dan Boylan, white, male, SCOPE volunteer, 0066, 6/19/65 done at SCLC orientation (transcripts)
- Oral history interview with David Soakne, white, male, SCOPE summer volunteer, 0057, Luverne, Alabama (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Diane Hirsch, white, female, SCOPE Volunteer, 0181 (sides 1 and 2), Macon, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Earl Coblyn, white, male, SCOPE, 0278 (sides 1 and 2), Orangeburg, South Carolina (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Edith Needleman, white female, SCOPE volunteer, 0183 (sides 1 and 2), Orangeburg, South Carolina (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Elaine Zvondin, white, female, SCOPE volunteer, 0220 (sides 1 and 2), Macon, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Hosea Williams, Negro, male, SCOPE director of summer project, 0337 (sides 1 and 2), Atlanta, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Janet Wolfe, white, female, SCOPE summer volunteer, 0046 (sides 1 and 2), Greenville, Louisiana (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Joel Siegal, white, male, SCOPE student volunteer, 0223, Macon, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Joseph Goldberg, white, male, SCOPE volunteer, 0182 (side 1 and 2), Macon, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Judy Van Allen, white, female, SCOPE summer volunteer, 0271 (sides 1 and 2), Crawfordsville, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Larry Cloyd, white, male, SCOPE volunteer, 0224 (sides 1 and 2), Macon, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Maggie Anderson, white, female, SCOPE student volunteer, 0228 (side 1 and 2), Marion, Alabama (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Mickey Shur, white, male, SCOPE volunteer, 0276 (sides 1 and 2), Orangeburg, South Carolina (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Nan Ohlinger, white, female, SCLC - SCOPE student volunteer, 0178 (sides 1 and 2), Macon, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Neil Reichline, white male, SCOPE student volunteer, 0176 - 1, Macon, Georgia (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Patricia Ryan, white, female, SCOPE summer volunteer, 0275, Orangeburg, South Carolina (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Paula Ferrari, white, female, SCOPE summer volunteer, 0055-1 (side 1), Luverne, Alabama (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Peggy Rozga, white, female, SCOPE volunteer, 0151 (sides 1 and 2), Union Springs, Louisiana (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Richard Klausner, white, male, SCOPE volunteer, 0056, Luverne, Alabama (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Richard Krushnic, white, male, SCOPE summer volunteer, 0060 (sides 1 and 2), Luverne, Louisiana (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Sheldon Rosen, white male, SCOPE volunteer, 0277, Orangeburg, South Carolina (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Steve Press, white, male, SCOPE volunteer, 0193, Orangeburg, South Carolina (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with two anonymous SCOPE volunteers, 0201 (oral histories (literary works))
- Oral history interview with Willy Leventhal, white, male, SCOPE student volunteer, 0180 and 0179, (side 2), Macon, Georgia. (oral histories (literary works))
- Post demonstration discussion - SCOPE, 0198-0199 (sound recordings)
- SCOPE (SCLC) Orientation, speakers include: Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams and Martin Luther King, 0079, 0084, 0085, 0086, 0087, 0088, 0089, 0090, 0091, 0093, 0095, 0096, 0097, 0098, 0099, 0100, 0101, 0432, 0433, 0434, 0435, 0436, 0437 (sound recordings)