We’ll Never Turn Back

We’ll Never Turn Back (1963)

Sponsor: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Director/Producer: Harvey Richards.

Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress.

Running Time: 29 minutes.

Advocacy film used by SNCC in its voter registration campaign in the South. Shot in Mis­sissippi, the film includes interviews with black farmers about the harassment and violence experienced when they attempted to register. Among the civil rights leaders featured are Julian Bond and Fannie Lou Hamer. Note: We’ll Never Turn Back is a reedited version of an earlier SNCC film, Freedom Bound. Distributed by Estuary Press, www.estuarypress.com.