Those Who Volunteered and Why They Volunteered

One precautionary note is that although I wrote this book to tell the QC story, in this chapter, I will not limit myself to QC data because the QC sample is a very small sample, and the data is not representative of the population that participated among the various volunteer groups. To be sure, in Virginia, teachers were drawn from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) (thirty of them), and during Freedom Summer, among the purported one thousand students from across the country who participated, there were nearly one hundred fifty lawyers, three hundred ministers, one hundred physicians, nurses, and psychologists who were also involved and did great and important work during that summer. In my attempt to answer this particular question therefore, I will draw from QC data as well as from national data and resources when necessary and wherever I can find them. To be precise, Gertrude (Trudy) Weissman Orris, Isaac Deutscher, Vivian Leburg Rothstein, Debra Schultz and Chude Allen referenced in this chapter were not students at QC and were not affiliated with QC in any way.