According to Google, there were 24,144 visits to the CRMA website during October for an average of 779 per day. This is approximately 26% higher than October of last year.
On school days, our number of visitors ranged from 650 to 1000 per day.
Roughly 22% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On average, international users have made up around one fifth of our users for quite some time. We are proud that our Freedom Movement of the 1960s is still of interest to people around the world and that our site still stands as an international information resource.
Over the long term however, ever since 2020 our U.S. traffic has been slowly 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 unrelenting attacks being waged by Republicans and MAGAites against teachers, librarians, school boards, and universities who dare stand against systemic racism and educate around issues of racial injustice. Nevertheless, we will persevere.
As of November 1st, our online archive contains 10,420 viewable pages, documents, images, and recordings, plus 408 videos in our Vimeo video channel.
Google reports that out on the global internet there are 22,167 backlinks to our site by people, organizations, and schools using us as an information resource.
Ever since we established the CRMA (orgininally 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.
Black Power Chronicles. The SNCC Legacy Project created the Black Power Chronicles (BPC) in 2015 to help fill the informational void that exists in our historical record about the impact of the Black Power Movement in local communities throughout America.
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.
Now streaming! From Protest to Power Podcasts. SNCC Legacy Project (SLP). The central theme of these visual podcasts is the ongoing effort of the Black community to achieve the power to define its existence in America.
Now Available! Second edition of Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching, by Menkart, Murray, and View. 2024. Lessons, quizzes, images, essays, articles, primary source documents, and poetry, to help teachers go beyond a "heroes and holidays" approach to teaching about the Freedom Movement in K-12 classrooms. The focus is on people of color, women, youth, organizing, culture, institutional racism, and the interconnectedness of social movements — Desegregation of Public Spaces, Voting Rights, Black Power, Labor and Land, Transnational Solidarity, and Student Engagement.
Unlawfully Incarcerated At Age Thirteen, by Emmarene Kaigler Streeter, 2024. The personal story of one of the 17 Black girls arrested in Americus, Georgia in July, 1963, jailed under horrific and deplorable conditionsand, and not released until September 13, 1963. Sometimes referred to as the "Stolen Girls of the Lee County Stockade." Available on Amazon.
SCOPE 60th Anniversary Reunion. Feb 27-March 2, 2025. Montgomery & Selma AL. Lodging in Montgomery. Day trip to Selma. Montgomery sites: Rosa Parks Museum, Freedom Riders Museum, First Baptist Church, SPLC Civil Rights Memorial; Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church, National Memorial for Peace and Justice (the Lynching Memorial) and Legacy Museum.
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 October were:
Sections, Landing & Reference Pages
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote?—Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Site Search: Civil Rights Movement Archive
- Documents From the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- March on Washington: Articles & Speeches
- Civil Rights Movement History 1950-1970
- Freedom Movement Photo Album
Individual Pages & Documents
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Poems of Langston Hughes
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- Photo Album: The Sit-Ins—Off Campus and Into Movement (1960)
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
- Photo Album: Freedom Movement Posters
- Photo Album: The Freedom Rides (1961)
- Voter Registration in Alabama Before the Voting Rights Act
(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 October:
Joan Browning interview with David Trowbridge, 2023. SNCC 1961-65. Georgia. SNCC Secretary. Freedom Rides. Albany, GA. 61min.
Joann Bland, Selma Alabama, by Philip Powell. 2013. Joann Bland talks with Valparaiso University students. Selma, AL., 18min.
Amelia Boynton, interviewed by Blackside. Selma, Alabama, Dallas County Voters' League, Selam to Montgomery Rights March, voting rights. 1985. 44min.
Jo Ann Robinson, interviewed by Blackside. Montgomery Bus Boycott, Women's Political Council, Alabama. 1985. 32min.
Bernice Johnson Reagon, interviewed by Blackside. NAACP, Albany Movement, SNCC, SNCC Freedom Singers.
Rufus Lewis, interviewed by Blackside. Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery Improvement Association, voter registration, Alabama Democratic Conference. Martin Luther King. 1985. 44min.
James Bevel, interviewed by Blackside. Nashville, Freedom Ride, Birmingham, Greenwood, Selma, Sheriff Jim Clark. 1985. 50min.
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, interviewed by Blackside. Birmingham, Alabama. NAACP, ACMHR SCLC. 1985. 63min.
Peter Orris, interviewed by Blackside. SNCC, COFO, Mississippi Freedom Summer. 1986. 36min.
Courtland Cox, interviewed by Blackside. March on Washington, MFDP & Democratic convention, SNCC & NAACP. 1979. 43min.
Albert Turner, interviewed by Blackside. Voting rights, Marion,Alabama, murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, Selma to Montgomery March. 1979. 36min.
1963 SNCC Contacts (Past and Present). Undated (probably between Dec 1963-October 1964) 1964 The State Department's Case Against Patricia Coatsworth, unsigned PCDF. Undated (possibly 1964). Regarding conspiracy charges of violating McCarran-Walter Act (Red Scare law) 1964? COFO legal representation form for civil rights workers. Unsigned COFO. Undated (possibly 1964) 1964 To the Negro People: Don't Buy at These Stores boycott flyer. Unsigned Madison Co. Movement. Undated (probably January 1964) 1964 From the Negro Citizen of Madison County boycott flyer. Unsigned Madison Co. Movement. Undated (probably January 1964) 1964 The Tale of a Merchant boycott flyer. Unsigned Madison Co. Movement. Undated (probably January 1964) 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, Ruleville flyer explaining Freedom Summer and soliciting local support. Unsigned COFO. Undated (probably May or June 1964). 1964 Mississippi Freedom Registration to Vote, explanatory flyer. Unsigned COFO. Undated (probably June or July 1964). 1964 Mississippi Report Dinner, unsinged Chicago SNCC. October 3, 1964. Fundraiser. 1964 Night Raiders Strike Twice in Sunflower County MS. Unsigned COFO. 10/29/64 1964 Memo re materials for Freedom Schools, John O'Neal, SNCC. 4/12/64. Sent to Dinky Romilly, Betty Garman, Billy Stafford, Julia Prettyman, Staughton Lynd, Harold Bardenelli, Velma McLin, Norma Becker 1964 COFO injunction against Sheriff Rainey et al. – Kinoy, Kunstler, & Peeples
Draft. Summer 1964
Kunstler deposition. Summer 1964
Peeples deposition. Summer 1964
Appeal brief of respondents (Mississippi officials). 11/3/6464? 65? Program Outline for Campus Friends of SNCC Groups. Unsigned SNCC. Undated (probably late 1964 to early 1965) 64? 65? Campus organizing notebook (handwritten). Judy Richardson, SNCC. Undated (possibly late 1964 or 65) 1965 Unseat the Mississippi Congressional Delegation petition. Congressional challenge. Unsigned MFDP. Undated (probably 1965) 1965 Why? Because we cannot vote..., SCOPE brochure. Unsigned SCLC. Spring 1965 65? 66? SNCC News of the Field. Unsigned SNCC. Undated (possibly late 1965 to early/mid 1966). 1966? Paved Roads Petition, unsigned (SNCC?). Location unknown. Date unknown (possibly 1965 or 1966). Local community organizing petition demanding paved streets in Black neighborhoods. 1/30/66 Slumlords Must Go! Protest flyer. Unsigned SNCC Vine City Project. January 30 (1966?). 1966 Draft slumlord statement. Unsigned SNCC Vine City Project. Undated (probably 1966). 1966 Anti-slumlord strategy notes (handwritten). Unsigned SNCC Vine City Project. Undated (probably 1966). 1966 COAPO/SCLC Fund appeal flyer. April. 1966 COAPO/SCLC Example conference registration/interview forms. March or April 1966 Candidates who participated in May 3 Democratic primaries COAPO/SCLC . 1967 An Analysis of American Racism. Frank Joyce, PAR/SSOC. Undated (probably 1967) 7 pages. 1967 Preventitive House Arrest of Chairman H. Rap Brown. Unsigned, SNCC. 12/22/67. 1970s? SNCC lawsuit against the U.S. government for illegal survelliance and unlawful harrasment. Undated (1970s?) 1970 Stranger in One's Land report on Mexican American (Latino) conditions in U.S. USCCR. May 1970 WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC, March 10, 1964. Selma, Mrs Boyington, Canton, Dave Dennis. MS
SNCC, March 11, 1964. Canton arrest, Natchez violence. MS
SNCC, March 12, 1964. Natchez sheriff, Columbus, MS.
SNCC, March 12, 1964. Pine Bluff AR, Natchez MS.
SNCC, March 13, 1964. Pine Bluff AR, Maryland, Canton, Ruleville MS.
SNCC, March 17, 1964. Selma AL, mock election, police harassment.
SNCC, March 18, 1964. Selma AL, mock election, Canton MS registration court ruling.
SNCC, March 19, 1964. Pine Bluff AR protest convictions, Natchez MS, Halifax Co. NC, NYC Theodore Bikel, Ian & Sylvia to boycott MS over segregation.
Vietnam War & Military Draft Documents
1965? Vietnam, unsigned JOIN. Pamphlet describing Vietnam and the Vietnam War. Undated (possibly 1965). 10 pages 1968 The Resistance: organizing materials. 1968. (13 documents) 1968 Questions and Answers on Prison Life, John Phillips, CADRE. Undated (possibly 1968). 1968 The Resistance: newsletters, 1968 (4 documents) 1968 Dean Rusk Comes to San Francisco, report by Bruce Hartford. January 1968 protest outside Fairmont Hotel. 1968 Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, summer sessions 1968. Carmel California. 1969 Bring the War Home! Chicago October 11. Brochure. Unsigned SDS 1969 Is the Anti-War Movement Anti-Imperialist? forum flyer. Dan Siegel, Alex Forman, Barry David. San Francisco. 10/17/69 Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
65? 66? NSM Summer Project - NSM - Freedom Library, Philladelphia Penna. Unsinged proposal/plan. Undated (possibly 1965 or 1966) 10/24/68 IS Reason, Tolerance and Cops, flyer. Unsigned UC Berkeley Independent Socialist Club (IS). 1/69? TWLF The Strike and You, UC Berkeley TWLF strike for Third World Studies. TWLF and Strike Support Committee. Undated (probably Jan or Feb 1969). 16 page pamphlet. 1/69? RSU Support the Strike, flyer. UC Berkeley TWLF strike for Third World Studies. Unsigned (Revolutionary Student Movement?) Undated (probably Jan or Feb 1969). Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Documents
1965 ERAP Newsletter. Unsigned, SDS. 10/20/65. SDS inner-city organizing projects. 12 pages. 1965 Trapped in a System, Carl Oglesby, SDS. Speech on Vietnam War and U.S. Foreign policy. 11/27/65. 8 pages. 1965 SDS Journal, Kansas University SDS. December 1965. 8 pages. 1965 The Voice student activism newsletter, Pallisades High School, Los Angeles CA. December 6, 1965. 8 pages. 1965 SDS Bulletin and contacts. Los Angeles CA. 12/7/65. 6 pages. 1965 SDS Regional Conference. Southern California. 12/17/65. 6 pages.
6/29/60 Ina Goodloe, RCNL Encouragement note to Amzie Moore, RCNL. MS. 7/20/60 Jas? Memo to Grafton Grey (RCNL?), re teachers denied tenure in MS 10/64 C.G. Deaton, USDA Reply to research inquiry by Greg Kaslo regarding Clarke County, MS 10/21/64 Greg Kaslo, CORE Research information request, regarding Clarke County, MS 10/23/64 Heber Ladner, MS Reply to research inquiry by Greg Kaslo, by Mississippi Secretary of State 10/25/64 Greg Kaslo, CORE Clarke County Project Report, MS. Oct. 18-24 9/24/65 Jake Friesen, MCC Delta Visit report, MS. 7 pages. 10/19/65 Edgar Stoesz, MCC Mississippi-Mexico-California Trip Diary, October 5-19 1965. 5 pages. 3/8/66 Stanley Bohn, MCC Findings of Mississippi Trip February 1966, March 8 1966. 10 pages 12/11/66 Hosea Williams, SCLC Memo to Bruce Hartford, re Grenada MS 1/17/67 E. David Cronon, WHS Memo to Bruce Hartford, from Wisconsin Historical Society re preservation of Civil Rights Movement materials 2/8/67 Leslie Fishel, WHS Memo to Bruce Hartford, from Wisconsin Historical Society re collection and preserving Civil Rights Movement materials. With checklist. 2/27/67 George Brown, HoR (D-CA) Reply to Bruce Hartford, re Vietnam War 3/67 Jim Bulloch, SCLC Letter re Grenada MS and SCLC (handwritten), Mississippi.
Amelia Boynton Interview for Eyes on the Prize by Callie Crossley. re Selma, Alabama, Dallas County Voters' League, March to Montgomery. 1985. 15 pages Bernice Johnson Reagon Interview for Eyes on the Prize by Chris Lee. Re NAACP, Albany Movement, SNCC, Freedom Singers. 1985. 15 pages Peter Orris Interview for Eyes on the Prize. Re Freedom Summer in Mississippi, SNCC. 1986. 16 pages
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Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching, Second Edition. By Menkart, Murray, and View. 2024. Lessons, quizzes, images, essays, articles, primary source documents, and poetry, to help teachers go beyond a "heroes and holidays" approach to teaching about the Freedom Movement in K-12 classrooms. The focus is on people of color, women, youth, organizing, culture, institutional racism, and the interconnectedness of social movements — Desegregation of Public Spaces, Voting Rights, Black Power, Labor and Land, Transnational Solidarity, and Student Engagement.
Unlawfully Incarcerated At Age Thirteen, by Emmarene Kaigler Streeter, 2024. Personal story of one the "Stolen Girls of the Lee County Stockade arrested in Americus GA, and imprisoned in 1963.
Marching in Montgomery, by John J. Hartman. IPBooks. 2024. First-hand account by a participant of the March 1965 voting rights protests in Montgomery Alabama in support of the movement in Selma AL.
Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family, by Faith Holsaert. Memoir of NYC childhood, SNCC in Southwest Georgia, and raising her own children in the coalfields of West Virginia.
The Rise and Fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, by Martin Oppenheimer. Native Publishers, 2024. Concise history including the historical antecedents, the Greensboro sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the violence of KKK and police, and its demise around 1973.
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.
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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