Honor Roll of Participants

The Southern Quarterly, Volume 52, Number 1, Fall 2014, pp. 250-251 (Article)

Published by The University of Southern Mississippi, College of Arts and Sciences

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[ This content has been declared free to read by the pubisher during the COVID-19 pandemic. ] 250 SOUTHERN QUARTERLY Appendix D

Honor Roll of Freedom Summer Participants

The listing of honorable names for participants of Freedom Summer is so long that we could not provide a complete roll call. At the closing banquet during the conference, we acknowledged just a few of those activists who took a courageous step to secure basic civil rights that we all enjoy today. This list includes some leading fi gures during Freedom Summer, while we also pay homage mostly to our local heroes. We honored them by calling their names, which is a common ancestral worship ritual in many cultures. Let neither their names nor their actions be forgotten:

Robert “Bob” Moses Organizer, “Mississippi Summer Project” / SNCC Field Secretary

Sandford (“Sandy”) Leigh SNCC Field Secretary and Director, COFO-Hattiesburg

Herbert Eugene Randall, Jr. Freelance Photographer

Victoria Gray Adams SNCC Field Secretary and MFDP Delegate 1964

Charlie E. Cobb, Jr. Creator, and SNCC Field Secretary

Vernon Dahmer* Former NAACP President-Forrest County

Lawrence Guyot SNCC co-founder Director, Freedom Summer-Hattiesburg Chairman, MFDP in 1964

Peggy Jean Connor Secretary-Treasurer, COFO-Hattiesburg and MFDP Delegate 1964

J.C. Fairley Former NAACP President-Forrest County

Daisy Harris Wade Local Activist and Host for Freedom Summer volunteers VOL. 52, NO. 1 (FALL 2014) 251

Anthony Harris Freedom School Student / Activist

Dorie Ladner SNCC Project Director (Natchez) and COFO organizer

Douglas Smith Youth Leader / Activist

National Council of Churches**

Rev. John E. Cameron Director, Hattiesburg Ministers’ Project

Ministers of Freedom Summer Churches

Rev. L.P. Ponder (Bentley Chapel United Methodist, Hattiesburg)

Rev. Cloudy Lumzy (Morning Star Baptist Church, Hattiesburg)

Rev. F. L. Barnes (Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Hattiesburg)

Rev. W.M. Hudson (St. James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Hattiesburg)

Rev. E.E. Grinnett (St. Paul United Methodist, Hattiesburg)

Rev. W.D. Ridgeway (True Light Missionary Baptist Church, Hat- tiesburg)

Rev. G. W. Robinson (Zion Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hattiesburg)

Rev. I. C. Allen (Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church, Palmers Crossing)

*We honor the entire Dahmer family, esp. Mrs. Ellie Dahmer. **A coalition of churches that sent ministers to participate in Hattiesburg’s freedom movement, starting with the Freedom Day in January 1964. The NCC offers common witness to Jesus Christ and to share in a ministry of reconciliation to the world in His name.