In Memory of my brother, slain civil rights worker, George Calvin Bess, Jr. 1944 - 1967.
"I was there and I still remember!"
George Bess, Jr.
1944 - 1967
Cherrye Bess-Branch
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Do you remember George Calvin Bess, Jr.?  I only got to know my brother  for a brief time.  He was killed in Mississippi in 1967 while working with the SNCC Movement. They were registering students to vote. I was five years old.  I know some one remembers.  I do remember singing the songs at the meeting my brother would take me too.  I remember their voices.  I am going to record songs from mass meetings and assemblies. I need  your  help?  I need to hear from people who  you know attended any SNCC or CORE assemblies or mass meetings.
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I need to hear from people who were there and who remember foot-soldiers who were actually there in 1955 -1965.  Workers who attended the assemblies, songleaders, preachers, mothers, fathers, black people, white people,  any race of people. I want your voices on this new recording of "The Voices of the Movement Old and New."  I do not have an "OFFICIAL TITLE" for the recording yet. Suggestions?
Please email me names, places, phone numbers, addresses, photo's, stories of some of the people you know who are still living and was involvement in the movement in 1955-1965.  I have the ear and the support of the one of the nation's top music producers in Nashville Tennessee.  Robert D. Metzgar, whose mother was a civil rights worker.  Many books have been written, many stories have been told.  IT'S MY TIME NOW.
I will be interviewing and recording your stories too.  I will be traveling to Tallahassee, FL, Selma, Alabama, Hattiesburg and Jackson, MS, Atlanta, GA, Danville, Virginia, Greenwood, MS, Los Angeles, Birmingham, AL, Chicago, Cleveland, and other cities where assemblies and the mass meetings were held and these songs were sang.  I will be looking for people who were there and people who knew people who were there.  People like: Ruth Harris and members of the SNCC Freedom Singers, Betty Mae Fikes, Willie Peacock, Hollis Watkins, Amanda Bowens Perdew, Virginia Davis, Fannie Lou Hammer,  Bernice Johnson Reagan, Cordell Reagon, Jocelyn McKissick, Mayfield, Carlton Reese, Farmer, Emory Harris, Bertha Gober-Culbreth, Mamie Brown, Marshall Jones, Jimmy Collier and the Movement Singers and Diane Smith, Charles Neblett, Matthew Jones, Cleo Kennedy, Sam Block, Mabel Hillary, Rev. Lawrence Cambell, and many many others such as Rev. C. K. Steele and Family and this list will grow.  FIRST STOP: Tallahassee Florida . . . Were You There?  Do You Remember? Email me if you were there and tell me abut others who were involved in the Movement.
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To the Left is the actual news article printed in the SNCC newsletter when my brother was killed in 1967. I still have that newspaper.  To the right is a poster I created to ask for your help with my project. Click on the link on top and enlarge poster.
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