Most of the students will be Northerners. The Black minister who's the local coordinator for SCOPE doesn't think Ellie will fit the bill, either. The sheriff comes by Ellie's house - her dad runs the local drug store - to give her a fatherly talk about it. (Most SCOPE workers were sent to Alabama and Mississippi, but a small number headed to Black-majority Martin and Warren counties in northeastern North Carolina.)Įllie's parents think SCOPE is a bunch of "outside agitators," and they remember how student volunteers had been murdered in Mississippi the previous year. In 1965, Ellie Hockley, a young University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student with a social conscience, decides to volunteer for SCOPE - the Summer Community Organization and Political Education project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Īs part of SCOPE, groups of college students, Black and white, mostly from the Northeast, headed into rural Southern communities to register Black citizens to vote.
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