New on the CRMVets Website for May, 2012

According to Google, 45,675 people visited the website during May. On school days, the numbers range from 1100 to 2300 per day. These numbers will, of course, decline noticeably over the summer months when schools are not in session.

I regret to report that due to some sort of mysterious computer glitch the website's blog was down for several weeks. We've managed to get it back up (we hope), but we haven't been able to re-display the old entries. We'll keep trying to fix that, but in the meantime please help us test the restored blog by posting some comments. Thanks.

Please continue to send us documents, letters, reports, stories, and other Southern Freedom Movement materials from the period 1951-1968.

 — Bruce Hartford, Webspinner.

New postings on the Civil Rights Movement Veterans website since our last update:

Updated and expanded list of document archives and oral histories at: .

Names Added to the Veterans Roll Call

Karen Duncan (Karen Duncanwood) - COFO/CORE, 1964, Mississippi.
Clarence L. Johnson - NAACP, 1960-69, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina.
Margaret Leonard - CORE, 1960-61 Louisiana, Georgia.
Bob Stout - COFO, 1964, Mississippi.

New Tributes & Memories added to In Memory

Joe Gross
George Smith
Remembering Dora C. White

New Articles About the Freedom Movement by Movement Veterans

The Freedom Riders, Robert McAfee Brown & Frank Randal (CORE Pamphlet)
Birth of a Voter, Bob Adelman. (CORE reprint of Ebony article from 1963.)
Demographic-Political Analysis of Freedom Riders, Henry Gerner, 1964.

Added to the History & Timeline

The Southern Courier (July '65-Dec '68)
Americus GA Protests, July 1965

New Letters & Reports From the Field

Impressions of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Fred Halstead. 1956
Report From Amite County, Marshall Ganz. Summer 1964?
Report From Madison & Rankin Counties, Mary Ann Shupenko. 1964?
Letter From Mississippi Governor Johnson to Calif. Governor Brown, 1965

New Additions to Our Stories

Larry Butler: Diary of an Alabama SCOPE Volunteer (Barbour Co. 1965)
Gail Falk: Remembering Freedom Summer (MS)
Clarence L. Johnson: Reflections on Growing Up In Greenwood, Mississippi ...
Rick Sheviakov: If I Ever Write Down the Story of My Life... (Freedom Rides)

New Additions to Our Thoughts

Leo Branton: A Sterling Brown Kind of Strong Man, Daphne Muse
Fifty Years: Remembering Medgar Evers, John Salter

New Additions to Discussions

No new discussions posted this month.

Added to Movement Documents

CORE National Action Council Minutes, June 1, 1962
Louisiana Voter Literacy Test ~ circa 1963
Proposed Plans for March. July 2, 1963.
March on Washington organizing correspondence from Courtland Cox (SNCC):
     Letter to Chicago Friends of SNCC re Organizing Materials, July 30, 1963
     Letter to Stokley Carmichael re Funds for Chartering Busses, Aug 18, 1963
     Memo to Bayard Rustin Listing Number of Busses From the South, Aug 22, 1963
     Letter to Bayard Rustin re Freedom Trains, undated
Civil Rights: Year End Summary, Southern Regional Council, December 31.
CORE Organization Department Report, Jim McCain. February, 1964
Andrew Goodman's Freedom Summer Application
Andrew Goodman's Freedom Summer Registration Form
Report on Summer Community Centers, Annell Ponder & Lois Chafee, July 10, 1964
Report From Moss Point-Pascagoula, MS, author & date unknown
Letter to Joan Gavin re training Blacks to be nurses. Ruth Steiner, MCHR.
Song Sheet, SCLC-SCOPE orientation? Summer 1965?
SCOPE Log: Pike County, Alabama, Frechettia Ford and Ned Moore.
Student Voice October, 28, 1964

CORE-Lator
     June, 1961
     August, 1961
     Lousiana CORE-Lator, November 1966

SCLC Newsletter
     September, 1962
     December, 1962
     July, 1963
     August, 1963

New Additions to Poetry
The Poetry section is one of the most-visited parts of the site.

Strong Men, Sterling Brown.

New Additions to Photo Album Pages:

The Sit-Ins — Off Campus and Into Movement
March to Montgomery
Before I'll Be a Slave...
In the Circle of Trust

Web Links and Bibliography updated, revised, & expanded.

As always comments, suggestions, corrections, and submissions from Freedom Movement Veterans 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 to webmaster@crmvet.org.

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