Hands on the Freedom Plow, 1995-2014

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This series includes drafts, edits, and correspondence between Richardson, her fellow editors, and the book's contributors over the ten years of work prior to the publication of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (published in 2010 by University of Illinois Press). The materials have been arranged into three subseries: Drafts/Editing; Publication; and Correspondence.

Drafts/Editing includes work by the volume's six editors: Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner. All of the editors are SNCC veterans who solicited contributions from other women who joined the SNCC organization during the civil rights movement. The subseries includes name files for each contributor, including several contributors who were not published in the final version of the volume. The files typically include both the original and subsequent drafts written by each author for Hands. This subseries also includes the editors' work in writing introductions and transitions between each segment and chapter of the text.

The Publications subseries largely consists of marketing and publicity files leading up to and following the book's publication in 2010.

The Correspondence subseries includes Richardson's copies of exchanges between the editors, the contributors, and the publishers of the volume. Typically these are Richardson's email printouts, occasionally accompanied by personal notes or drafts of emails.

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