Books About McComb
SNCC: The New Abolitionists by Howard Zinn PDF

This book about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was written in the early 1960s by historian Howard Zinn, who had firsthand insights based on his role as one of the adult advisors to SNCC. Thanks to permission of the publisher, South End Press, the full chapter about SNCC in McComb can be downloaded for free from this link.

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne
A thorough and engaging people’s history of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants. Includes two chapters on McComb.

Local People by John Dittmer
A detailed, grassroots description of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Includes two chapters on McComb.

The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement by Bob Zellner PDF
Zellner tells how one white Alabaman joined ranks with the black students who were sitting-in, marching, fighting, and sometimes dying to challenge the Southern “way of life.” Includes detailed description of his experiences in McComb

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC edited by Judy Richardson et al.
Fifty-two women—Northern and Southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement.

 

Films About McComb and Area

Freedom Song
Danny Glover, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Vondie Curtis Hall, and Loretta Devine star in this dramatic account of SNCC in McComb. The film presents the story of an African American teenager who joins a grassroots student crusade to desegregate his hometown, even though his involvement with the group threatens his relationship with his father. Based on the actual history of SNCC, student activism, and voter registration in McComb, Miss., during the Civil Rights Movement.

Injustice Files segment on Natchez
A 2011 mini-documentary about a cold case file from Natchez, Miss., produced by Keith Beauchamp for Discovery Channel. After taking a promotion at the Armstrong Tire and Rubber Factory in Natchez, Wharlest Jackson, father of five and treasurer for the local chapter of the NAACP, was murdered with a car bomb. Hearing the explosion, Wharlest Jackson's son rode his bike to the scene of the crime and unfortunately witnessed the results of this sophisticated murder plot.

 

Websites

CRMvets.org

CC Bryant

Fannie Lou Hamer Institute

Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Veterans

National Visionary Leadership Project

Telling Their Stories

Civic Voices

Young People's Project

Mississippi Truth Project

Welcome Table in McComb

Southern Echo