Honor Roll of Freedom Summer 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, Freedom Schools 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