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According to Google, 40,056 people visited the CRMA website during February for an average of 1431 per day. This is a 5% decline from February of last year. Roughly 89% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 1300 to 2000 per day.
Sixty-one new items — photos, documents, stories, articles, commentaries, discussions, and other resources — were added to the CRMA website in February. Our site now provides over 5100 searchable pages.
Ever since Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement established the CRMA (formerly known as "CRMVet") in late 1999, it has been funded by personal donations from Freedom Movement activists and individual supporters. We carry on this work without any institutional support, foundation grants, or philanthropy contributions of any kind. So if you find our CRMA site useful and worthy, please click here to make a donation to keep us alive and growing. Thank you for anything you are able to contribute.
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SNCC Digital Gateway. SNCC Legacy Project & Duke University. Tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation.
SNCC Legacy Project (SLP). SLP was begun to preserve and extend 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 liberty.
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.
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.
Chicago SNCC History Project. Tells the Stories of Chicago Area Friends of SNCC (CAFSNCC), its relationship to SNCC, it's pivotal role in shaping the fight for freedom in Chicago between 1960-1965, and preserves that history as a legacy for the young people who are continuing the fight for freedom, justice and peace.
SCOPE 50. Preserving Civil Rights and The Story of Voting. Website of SCLC/SCOPE project activists.
Our top-five, most-visited pages in February were:
(Note that most of the documents on our site are in PDF format. But Google does not count how often PDFs are accessed, so our "Top Five" list above omits them.)
Kidney donor needed! Dr. Shirley Green-Reese is a civil rights activist and pioneer and one of the fourteen 1963 Leesburg Stockade Girls who were held in Lee County, Georgia for 60 days during the Movement in Americus, Georgia. She is aggressively advertising for a kidney donor. Click here for more information.
Now Available: The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride, by David Dennis Sr. & Jr. HarperCollins, May 2022. "A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter."
Robert "Bob" Hicks Foundation Collection is now available online. It provides a digital archive of photos, video, audio and documents related to the Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement and early Bogalusa History. The Full Digital Archive is available online through the Louisiana Digital Library. (Press Release.)
Hosea Williams: A Lifetime of Defiance and Protest. Comprehensive biography of SCLC leader Hosea Williams that traces his journey from a local activist in Savannah Georgia to a national leader of the Freedom Movement and one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief lieutenants.
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 1951-1968. See Submissions details.
We've started a CRMA Video Channel on the Vimeo hosting service for videos created by Freedom Movement veterans (or their immediate families) and for 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.
The Vimeo service plan that we can afford limits the number of videos we can post each week. The following videos have already been posted, and more will added this month and next.
Our Voices Collection
From Georgia and Virginia to Harlem and Beyond..., by Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely:
Video Transcription.SNCC 60th Conference Small Group Discussions
As part of the SNCC 60th Conference, eight small-groups of Freedom Movement veterans discussed the Freedom Movement and how it affected their lives. For six of the eight groups there are two separately recorded sessions, for two groups one combined recording.
Group A: Video Transcription
Bruce Hartford, Jennifer Lawson, Peter de Lissovoy, Claire O'Connor Rick TuttleGroup B: Video
Chude Pam Parker Allen, Heather Tobis Booth, Daphne Muse, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Larry Spears, Pat VailGroup C: [TBD]
Group D: Video Transcription
Phyllis Cunningham, Fatima Cortez, Laura Foner, Karen Haberman (Trusty), Peter Orris, John McAuliffGroup E: Video Transcription
Arlene Dunn, Ira Grupper, Constancia Dinky Romilly, Karen Spellman, Nancy Stearns, Eugene TuritzGroup F Video
Josh Gould, Janet Heinritz-Canterbury, Ed Nakawatase, Frances O'Brien, Muriel TillinghastGroup G: [Video TBD] Transcription
Angeline Butler, Marion Kwan, Linda Wetmore Halpern, Johnny E. Parham, Jr., Bill Perlman, Jane SilverGroup F: Video
Miriam Cohen Glickman, Carol Rogoff, Faith Holsaert, Timothy JenkinsNew Links Added to our Bibliography of Film, Videos & Audio
Ella's Song: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest, performed by the Resistance Revival Chorus. 4min. MLK: The Other America, Dr. King's 1967 speech about poverty and economic justice at Stanford University. 48min. Un(re)solved, multiplatform experience examining a federal effort to grapple with Americab's legacy of racist killings. By Frontline (PBS), Ado Ato Pictures, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ). 2021 SNCC 60th Conference: In Memoriam. In memory of those warriors in the fight for justice and freedom who have transcended this place to higher ground... Gone but never forgotten. 9min.SNCC 60 Years Strong. Acknowledgement of the victories by SNCC in the struggle for freedom and Justice over the past 60 years to make America's mottos, "E Pluribus Unum Out of Many, One," and "One Nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all" — true. 21min.
Stand Up and Shout. SNCC Freedom and Justice Concert. 75min.
Passage at St. Augustine (free Vimeo live stream). By Clennon L. King, AugustineMonica Films, 2015. 60min. Maria Gitin, 83min interview by Voices From the Civil Rights Movement: Sixth Floor Museum about SCLC's SCOPE project and the Freedom Movement in Wilcox County Alabama, 2021. Diane Nash Bio, 6min interview by Douglas Bevel, narrated by Angela Basset. New Movement Documents
???? Let's Take a Look at a Law That Has Been on the Books For a Long Time re the Civil Rights Act of 1866 And The Enforcement Act of 1870. Unsigned and undated 1963 Support Justice in Mississippi, flyer to mobilize local support at courthouse for protesters arrested in Itta Bena MS. Unsigned SNCC. 7/19/63 ???? Who Do We Organize?, SNCC memo by Marion Barry re organzing & recruiting on at HBCUs and need for a college program. Undated (possibly 1964?) 1964 Proposal to Field Foundation for Tougaloo Work-Study Project, unsigned, undated 1964 Sunflower County, unsigned report (possibly from ministers project). Undated (probably 1964) 1964 Mississippi Summer Project: Running Summary of Incidents, June 16-August 26, 1964. SNCC.
Orginal document. As Published.1964 Memo announcing SNCC study institute after Waveland staff retreat, unsigned SNCC. Undated (probably November 1964) 64? 65? Support appeal letter, Cliff Vaughs, Tom Wakayama, Geoffrey, SNCC photography department. Undated (probably 1964 of 1965) 1965 SNCC Executive Committee Agenda, unsigned SNCC. Undated 1965 1965 Testimony of SNCC to House Judiciary Committee on the proposed Voting Rights Act, Ralph Featherstone, SNCC. Undated 1965 Summer Volunteer Parents-Related Documents
1964 Minutes, Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee, Los Angeles Area. Dorothy Hunn, PMEC. July 6, 1964 1964 Minutes, Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee, Los Angeles Area. Dorothy Hunn, PMEC. July 13, 1964 1964 Flyer & meeting notice, Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee, Los Angeles Area. July 1964 1964 Minutes, Steering Committee, Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee, Los Angeles Area. Dorothy Hunn, PMEC. July 18, 1964
6/25/64 Parents of Freedom Summer participants on their visit to DC about Chaney-Schwerner-Goodman lynching and federal inaction against violence. 6/8/66 SCEF Shuttlesworth Asks LBJ to send federal voting registrars to Mississippi Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
1955 PDC What Happened on June 15?, 15-page pamphlet about arrest of 29 anti-war activists who protested a New York City civil defence mobilization. Arthur Brown, Provisional Defense Committee. June 15, 1955 1955 PDC Fund-appeal letter, for arrested anti-war activists. Dorothy Day, A.J. Muste, Provisional Defense Committee ???? NSM Community Organization in the Ghetto, A Critique, by Bill Strickland, NSM. Undated (possibly 1964 or '65 or later) 1963 SDS An Interracial Movement of the Poor?, by Carl Wittman, Tom Hayden, SDS. 25-page working paper. 1964? FoS Donation/support slip, by Fred Glick Chicago North Shore Friends of SNCC, undated (probably 1964) 1964 FoS Support appeal quoting letter from Harry Belafonte. Monroe Sharp, Chicago Friends of SNCC 1964 The Freedom Movement In Boston, by Noel Day, St. Mark Social Center. 19-page analysis. 3/64 SDS Politics 1964 -- Corporatism and Crisis, by Eugene Feingold, Tom Hayden, SDS 3/64 The Triple Revolution: An Appraisal of the Major U.S. Crisis and Proposals for Action, by Ad Hoc Committee. 14-page white paper. New Letters & Reports From the Field
1963? Judy Walborn, SNCC? Student "Non-Violent" Agitators Face Repression and Injury, undated (possibly 1963) 3/10/64 Milton McGaskey Letter to Amzie Moore re food & clothing) (MS) 9/7/64 Mary Ann Shupenko, COFO/CORE Report on office administration, Madison Co. MS 9/12/64 Unsigned COFO/CORE Canton COFO Two-Week Report MS 9/12/64 Eric Orr, COFO Weekly Report, Madison Co. MS 9/12/64 Eartis James Crawford, COFO Weekly Report, Madison Co. MS 9/13/64 Unsigned, COFO Valley View Two Week Report, Madison Co. MS 9/15/64 Mary Ann Shupenko, COFO/CORE Weekly office report Canton, Madison Co. MS 9/16/64 Mrs. Annie Devine, COFO Weekly Report Political Programs Madison Co. MS 9/19/64 Eric Orr, COFO Weekly Report, Madison Co. MS 9/64? Rev. Jack Alford, DM? A Southern Vacation, report from McComb MS 7/66? M. George Walters, DM? The Mississippi Freedom March and Issued Raised for the Movement, re Meredith March Against Fear and Black Power New Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
5/28 Dear Vails, letter from Pat Vail (COFO) re preparations for Freedom Summer 6/22 Dear Family, handwritten letter from Pat Vail (COFO) describing Freedom Summer orientation 6/26 Dear Family, note from Pat Vail (COFO) from Freedom Summer orientation
Original (handwritten) Typed7/6/ Letter to Mr. & Mrs. J.H. Vail, parents of Pat Vail (SNCC) re federal protection for Freedom Summer activists (MS). Senator Hugh Scott (R-PA) 7/17 Dear Miss Vail, letter to Pat Vail (SNCC) re federal protection for Freedom Summer activists (MS), Senator Joseph Clark (D-PA) New Additions to Our Stories
Oscar Chase Mississippi Summer: 1963 to February 1964: A Memory Doris Derby Interview by Max Krochmal (SOHP) re SNCC, GA, MS, etc. 2010. (Bio & metadata) Margaret Herring Interview by Timothy Tyson (SOHP) re SNCC, MS, SCLC, etc. 2010
PDF transcript Audio + bio & metadataTerry Howard SCLC and Me, power-point presentation about the movement in Taliaferro Co. Georgia Raquel Williams Interview (Birmingham school integrator), by Willoughby Anderson, SOHP. 2005 New Articles & Speeches From the Southern Freedom Movement
1965 Negro Farm Co-op: Progress in Mississipp Jerry DeMuth (SNCC), Milwaukee Journal, September 1965 1965 The Forgotten Battle in Arkansas Jerry DeMuth (SNCC). 10/29/65 1965 Mississippi: A War on Poverty or Civil Rights? Jerry DeMuth (SNCC), Texas Observer. 10/29/65. Attack on Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) 1969 Manifesto To the White Christian Churches and the Jewish Synogogues In the United States of America and All Other Racist Institutions. James Forman, National Black Economic Development Conference. Adopted April 26, 1969, Detroit MI. Proclaimed May 2, 1969, Riverside Church, New York City. New Additions to Our Thoughts
From Georgia and Virginia to Harlem and Beyond..., Peggy Trotter Dammond PreacelyNew Names Added to the Activist Roll Call
No new names added to the Roll Call this month New Tributes & Memories added to In Memory
Curtis Hayes Muhammad New Additions to Our Discussions
SNCC 60th Conference Discussions (Multiple Groups), October, 2021 Group A: Bruce Hartford, Jennifer Lawson, Peter de Lissovoy, Claire O'Connor, Rick Tuttle Group D: Phyllis Cunningham, Fatima Cortez, Laura Foner, Karen Haberman (Trusty), Peter Orris, John McAuliff Group E: Alene Dunn, Ira Grupper, Constancia "Dinky" Romilly, Karen Spellman, Nancy Stearns, Eugene Turitz Group G: Angeline Butler, Marion Kwan, Linda Wetmore Halpern, Johnny E. Parham, Jr., Bill Perlman, Jane Silver New Answers Added to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
No new answers added this month. New Additions to Poetry
The Poetry section is one of the most-visited parts of the site.
No new poems added this month. New Additions to the Photo Album Pages:
The Sit-Ins — Off Campus and Into Movement The Louisiana Movement Before I'll Be a Slave... Freedom Movement Art Web Links and Bibliography updated, revised, & expanded.
