According to Google, there were 29,030 visits to the CRMA website during March for an average of 936 per day.
This is approximately 9% less than March of last year. Ever since 2020, our traffic has been declining. Since two-thirds of our visitors are students (grade school and college) we believe that a significant portion of this decline stems from the vicious and unrelenting war being waged by Republicans and MAGAites against teachers, librarians, schools, and colleges who dare stand against racism and educate around issues of racial justice. Nevertheless, we still stand and will persevere.
Roughly 17% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 700 to 1300 per day.
As of April 1st, our online archive contains 9905 searchable pages, documents, and images, and 329 videos in our Vimeo video channel. Google reports that out on the global internet here are 20,005 backlinks to our CRMA site, sections, and pages by organizations and people using us as an information resource.
Ever since we established the CRMA (formerly known as "CRMVet") in 1999, it has been almost entirely funded by personal donations from Freedom Movement veterans and individual supporters. We carry on this work with almost zero institutional support, foundation grants, or philanthropic contributions. So if you find our CRMA site useful and worthy, please click donate to keep us alive and growing. You can donate via check, your bank's Bill Pay service, or PayPal. Thank you for anything you are able to contribute.
SNCC Legacy Project (SLP). SLP preserves and extends SNCC's legacy. Although SNCC the organization no longer exists, we believe that its legacy continues and needs to be brought forward in ways that continue the struggle for freedom, justice and equality today.
SNCC Digital Gateway (SDG). A joint project of SLP and Duke University, SDG tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation.
Teaching for Change and Zinn Education Project. Provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world by promoting and supporting the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country.
SCOPE 50. Preserving Civil Rights and the Story of Voting. Website of SCLC/SCOPE project activists.
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Empowering the next generation, passing it on to carry it on by preserving the history of the Mississippi Movement.
SNCC & Grassroots Organizing Discussion Series. Feb-May (online and in-Person events). Various locations. SNCC Legacy Project (SLP).
Mississippi Freedom Summer 60th Commemoration Events, Programs and Initiatives.
June 21, Neshoba County MS. 60th Annual Mississippi Civil Rights, Martyrs Memorial Service, Caravan and Conference. Title: How Long?
June 14-16, Nashville TN. SSOC Reunion: In the mid 1960s the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) emerged from an effort by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to reach southern whites. SSOC veterans have organized a reunion to be held June 14-14, 2024, in Nashville, TN. Those who were involved in SSOC chapters and/or other SSOC programs are especially urged to attend. For further information contact Grant Cooper at gc@resupro.com or by phone at 504-813-9922.
Movement Art: If you are aware of any works of art related to the Freedom Movement such as paintings, drawings, murals, statues, and so on, please take a look at our Civil Rights Movement Art page to see if we already have an image of it in our collection. If it isn't included in our collection please email us an image we can post, or a weblink, or some other information that we can use. Thanks.
Movement Materials: Please continue to email to us documents, letters, reports, stories, and other Southern Freedom Movement materials from the period 1950-1970. See Submissions details.
According to Google, our top-ten, most-visited sections and individual pages in March were:
Sections, Landing & Reference Pages
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote?—Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Site Search: Civil Rights Movement Archive
- Documents From the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Documents: Selma Alabama and the March to Montgomery 1963-1965
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
- Documents From the 1960s Sit-Ins
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Civil Rights Movement History 1951-1968
Individual Pages & Documents
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Photo Album: The Sit-Ins—Off Campus and Into Movement (1960)
- Photo Album: The Children's Crusade: Birmingham (1963)
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
- Bigger Than a Hamburger, Ella Baker. Address: SNCC founding conference (1960)
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Poem: Ain't I A Woman?, Sojourner Truth
- Dorie Ladner (Veterans Roll Call page)
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
- Poems of Langston Hughes
(Google does not count how often PDF files are accessed. Since most of our documents are in PDF format, the "Top Ten" lists are not all that accurate.)
Our CRMA Video Channel on the Vimeo hosting service provides videos created by Freedom Movement veterans (or their immediate families) and videos created by others that are substantially about Movement veterans. When you visit the channel, please consider adding yourself as a "follower" for social-media metrics. Thanks.
New videos posted in March:
SNCC 50th #36 ~ Freedom Concert, Hot 8 Brass Band, SNCC Freedom Singers, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Guy Carawan, Len Chandler, Harry Belafonte, more...
SNCC 50th #37 ~ Plenary - Bob Moses, We the People
SNCC 50th #38 ~ Closing Program - Bernice Johnson Reagon, Solidarity of Past, Present and Future.
Vernon Dahmer Jr, by Emilye Crosby. Hattiesburg, Mississippi, segregation, military, killing of Vernon Dahmer Sr, Klu Klux Klan trial. 2015. 111min
Louise Broadway, by Will Griffin. Baker County Georgia Movement, mother who sent daughter to all-white school, doctor to Freedom Riders. 2013. 34min
Thomas Gaither, by Joseph Mosnier. Orangeburg, South Carolina, Claflin College, Student sit-ins, CORE, Freedom Rides, NAACP. 2011. 131min
A.B. Britton, 2005 or 2006. Mississippi. 45min.
Bobby Talbert, 2005. McComb MS student movement, NAACP, SNCC, violence, arrests. 88min.
Marilyn Lowen, 2005. Mississippi, SNCC, Tougaloo, CDGM, MFDP, Neshoba Co. 74min.
Malcom_Farmer, interviewed by Rob Widell. University of Rhode Island Multicultural Center, 2014. 35min.
John (Jay) Shetterly, interviewed by Bruce Watson. University of Rhode Island Multicultural Center, 2014. 17min.
Accompanying: The Journey of Staughton and Alice Lynd, by Maestra Productions. 2024. 110min.
42 43 SRC Founding Documents. 3 documents
A Basis for Inter-Racial Cooperation and Development in the South, 12/15/42
Statement of Conference of White Southerners on Race Relations, 4/8/43
Resolutions of the Collaboration Committee, 6/16/431946 Journey of Reconciliation, George D. Houser and Bayard Rustin 1954 It Can Happen in Missouri, Lula Farmer, CORE. Undated (possibly 1955-58). Recruitment/organizing mailer. 1958 CORE Acts on Voting. Unsigned (possibly James McCain) Sumter SC CORE. Organizing flyer/mailer 1959 Report to CORE Members and Friend, financial auditor's report. James Robinson, CORE, 7/21/59. 1959 CORE Miami Interracial Action Institute, Summary and Evaluation. Susan Bodan, James Robinson, Gordan Carey, Marvin Rich, CORE. December 1959. Nonviolence training and sit-ins against segregation in Miami, FL 1961 Fiery Cross, Ku Klux Klan newsletter. 12/15/61 1962 Preliminary survey on the condition of Negro farmers in Ruleville MS, Charles Cobb & Charles McLaurin, SNCC. 11/19/62 1963 Template: media equal-time, community service request form. Unsigned Student Civil Liberties Coordinating Committee (SCLCC). Undated (possibly November 1963) Enforcement of federal broadcast regulations. 1963 Equal Time on Radio and TV, November 29 1963. Unsigned Student Civil Liberties Coordinating Committee(?) 11/29/63. Enforcement of federal broadcast regulations. 1964 Intensify the Effort in 1964 memo to SNCC groups. Unsigned SNCC. Undated (probably January 1964) 1964 SNCC mailing labels list, circa Freedom Summer. Unsigned SNCC. 1964 Mississippi Summer Project Worker returns. Press-release template. Unsigned COFO or SNCC. Undated (probably August or September 1964). For use by Friends of SNCC and other support groups. 1964 What Happened After Missing Trio Disappeared, It Was 20 Hours Before FBI Got to Work. Reprint from SNCC Student Voice. Undated (probably August 1964) 1964 Freedom Registration tally as of 8/10/64. Unsigned COFO. 1965 Fact Sheet and Suggestions for Action on the FDP Challenge Unsigned NSM. Undated (probably late 1964) 1965 Why We Are Here, Richard Burke & Harold Stagg. April 1965. CORE/NAACP flyer explaining action against housing segregation in Lawrence Kansas 1965 Finances & Report memo to Lousisiana staff. Ronnie Moore, CORE. 6/26/65. 1965 Dear Fearless CORE Worker Sharon (Burger?), CORE. 6/28/65. Orientation memo for Louisiana summer project 1965 Untitled freedom school memo & needs list, Mary Larsen, COFO. 6/28/65 1965 Dear Friend, memo to supporters about SNCC summer programs. Faith Holsaert, SNCC (New York). July 1965. 1965 Northern Support Program, volunteer sigh-up sheet. Faith Holsaert, SNCC (New York). July 1965. Application Forms & Personnel Files
1964 Louisiana Summer Project Acceptance Letters (12) 1964 Sharon Burger CORE Louisiana summer project application 1964 Peggy Ewan CORE Louisiana summer project application 1964 Robert Hurwitt CORE Louisiana summer project application 1964 Judith Nusbaum CORE Louisiana summer project personnel form 1964 Judith Rollins CORE Louisiana summer project application 1965 Doratha Smith CORE Louisiana summer project personnel form New York SNCC Newsletter, Special report on GA, AL, MS elections by Cleve Sellers. November 1966
New York SNCC Newsletter, February, 1967.
New York SNCC Newsletter, Report on Nashville student protests and Sunflower Co. election. April 1967.
New York SNCC Newsletter, SNCC May 1967.
Summer Volunteer Parents-Related Documents
10/12/64 Parents Mississippi Freedom Committee newsletter, unsigned PMFC. 10/14/64 Report re Parents Mississippi Freedom Committee unsigned, PMFC. 10/26/64 Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee, Newsletter, unsigned PMFC. 11/7/64 Parents Mississippi Freedom Association Report , Dorothy Hunn, PMFA. 11/18/64 Parents Mississippi Freedom Association Report, unsigned PMFA. 11/19/64 Parents Mississippi Freedom Association Newsletter, unsigned PMFA. 12/00/64 Urgent call for donations for Christmas shipment to Mississippi, unsigned PMFA. Undated December. 12/9/64 Parents Mississippi Freedom Association Meeting Report Dorothy Hunn, PMFA.
11/1/61 NSA Civil Rights Bulletin, Letter from Magnolia Jail, Law against desegregation activity sought. WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC February 1, 1964. Louis Allen murder, Atlanta Leb's sit-in, George Greene & Curtis Hayes
SNCC February 1, 1964. Chapel Hill, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Raleigh, Louis Allen murder.
SNCC February 1, 1964. Louis Allen murder, Charlie Cobb.
SNCC February 1, 1964. Chapel Hill CORE protests, arrests, violence, names of arrestees.
SNCC February 2, 1964. Liberty MS shooting, Emma Bell.
SNCC February 3, 1964. Jackson State protests, shootings, police violence. Hattiesburg jail sentences.
SNCC February 3, 1964. Jackson State protests, shootings, police violence, Charlie Cobb.
SNCC February 3, 1964. Hattiesburg & Jackson. Louis Allen funeral
SNCC February 4, 1964. SNCC workers barred from Jackson State. Selma mass meeting police repression. Cambridge MD Gloria Richardson.
SNCC February 5, 1964. Hattiesburg arrests. Selma legal action. Jackson mass meeting.
SNCC February 5, 1964. Hattiesburg ministers.
SNCC February 5, 1964. Hattiesburg police arresting and harassing voter registration workers, Frank Smith.
SNCC February 5, 1964. Police attack on photographer in Notasulga Alabama.Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
6/5/65 TTP Our Work for a World Without War, leadership seminar. Jack Bollens, Turn Toward Peace (TTP) 6/28/65 CNVA Dear Mrs. Montgomery, letter re Washington DC protests against Vietnam War. A.J. Muste 1968 NLG Legal Street Sheets, know your rights re police & judicial system for protesters and citizens. National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Circa 1968. (6 documents)
6/24/64 Ron Ridenour, COFO Report from Ron Ridenour about incidents in Hattiesburg MS 6/7/65 Jane (Stembridge?) SNCC Personal note to Lucy Montgomery 6/28/65 Nancy Stoller, SNCC Dear Lucy, note to Lucy Montgomery from Arkansas SNCC project 6/29/65 Myles Horton, HREC Dear Lucy, note to Lucy Montgomery re workshop and activities
Louise Broadway Interview by Will Griffen re Baker County Georgia Movement, school integration, Freedom Riders. 2013.
The Proof of the Pudding by James Peck, CORE. Crisis, Nov. 1949. CORE swimming pool desegregation actions at Palisades Pool NJ and Bimini Baths Los Angeles CA.
Questions regarding the implications of the Chaney-Schwerner-Goodman lynching, Bob Moses. SNCC 5th Anniversary. 1965
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
Ron Kaufman, SNCC
Dorie Ladner, SNCC
No new poems added this month.
Love Letter from Pig: My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer, by Julie Kabat. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Based on primary-source materials, the personal story of volunteer Luke Kabat and the Meridian MS (Lauderdale Co.) project.
No Ordinary Joe: Lesson From a Life of Community Organizing for Social Change, by Jerome Christensen. Wordshop at Fourth & Sioux, September 2023. Life of Civil Rights Movement activist and community organizer Joe Morse.
Standing, by Ernest McMillan. August, 2023.
My Country Is the World: Staughton Lynd's Writings, Speeches, and Statements against the Vietnam War, edited by Luke Smith. Foreword by Staughton and Alice Lynd. Haymarket Books, 2023.
The Struggle of Struggles, by Vera Pigee (1924-2007), edited by Frangoise Hamlin, University Press of Mississippi. 2023. New edition of Vera Pigee autobiography chronicles Coahoma County MS, NAACP, Women's leadership, grassroots organizing, citizenship schools, voter registration, and the Baptist church.
A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi, by Joe Bateman, Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, and Richard Arvedon. How the civil rights movement unfolded in a small rural town, far from the cameras.
Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey, by Dan Berger, Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons. An authorized biography of Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons that brings into focus the lives of two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom. Basic Books, January 2023.
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, by Margaret Burnham, 2023. Investigation of Jim Crow-era racial violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?
Anne Braden Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1947-1999, Ben Wilkins, editor. Monthly Review Press, August 2022. Representative collection of Braden's writings, speeches, and letters, covering the full spectrum of her activism: from the relationship between race and capitalism, to the role of the South in American society, to the political function of anti- communism.
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, by Sam Pollard & Geeta Gandbhir, Multitude Films in association with The Atlantic. Story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County Alabama. 2022. 90min.
As always comments, suggestions, corrections, and submissions from Freedom Movement activists are welcome. Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement who are listed on the website's Roll Call are encouraged to contribute to the website their stories, thoughts, documents, and memories & tributes of those who have passed on by emailing them in to us.
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