First Person-Resources

Resources for Juanita Nelson’s Oral History

Related to the topics covered in this oral history, there is a wealth of published material available, reflecting diverse opinions and perspectives. Here are a few resources to get you started.

About Jim Crow

• Jim Crow Resources from “Separate is not Equal” Web site
• Examples of Jim Crow laws from different states—Created by Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site Interpretive Staff

About the Civil Rights Movement

• President Lyndon Johnson’s televised and radio-transmitted speech given on July 2, 1964, the day that he signed the Civil Rights Bill—From the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
• The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Tennessee
• Juan Williams. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. (New York: Penguin Books), 1987. The companion volume to the PBS Television series
• Oral History Index at the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Web site
• More Civil Rights oral histories at the Voices of Civil Rights Web site

About Civilian Public Service Camps

• Wikipedia article about Civilian Public Service camps
• The Good War and those who refused to fight it—PBS Documentary about American conscientious objectors and World War II; Wally Nelson was featured in this documentary

About Koinonia Farm

• Koinonia Farm Web site
• Briars in the Cotton Patch, The Story of Koinonia Farm—The PBS Web site for a one-hour documentary about Koinonia Farm
• Letter from Clarence Jordan to President Eisenhower dated January 22, 1957 (quoted above) From the Briars in the Cotton Patch: The story of Koinonia Farm Web site
• Full-text version of Clarence Jordan’s Cotton Patch Gospels online

About Juanita Nelson’s War Tax Resistance experiences

• Juanita Nelson, “A Matter of Freedom,” Liberation, September 1960.

Resources for Robert Romer’s Oral History

Related to the topics covered in this oral history, there is a wealth of published material available, reflecting diverse opinions and perspectives. Here are a few resources to get you started.

About the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963

• The March on Washington: Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Historic Civil Rights Protest, From the National Public Radio Web site
• Official Program for the March on Washington From Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives
• Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech – Presented at the March on Washington August 28, 1963; Washington, D.C., Audio, video, and text

About the Civil Rights Movement

• The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Tennessee
• Juan Williams. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. (New York: Penguin Books), 1987. The companion volume to the PBS Television series
• Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez, editor. Letters from Mississippi: Personal Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers of the 1964 Freedom Summer. (Brookline, Massachusetts: Zephyr Press, 2002)
• Oral History Index at the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Web site
• More Civil Rights oral histories at the Voices of Civil Rights Web site

About Voorhees College

• Voorhees College Web site

About Civil Disobedience

• Full-text online version of Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” (1849)—originally “Civil Disobedience” was published with the title “Resistance to Civil Governments”

About the Vietnam War

• American Experience: Vietnam Online—An online companion to the PBS television series Vietnam: A Television History
• Oral Histories at the Vietnam Project Web site of Texas Tech University—Virtual Vietnam Archive

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