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According to Google, there were 34,025 visits to the CRMA website during April for an average of 1134 per day. This is approximately 4% more than April of last year. Roughly 15% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 600 to 2000 per day.
Our site now provides over 8300 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.
According to Google, our top-five, most-visited pages in April 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.)
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.
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 April:
Chude Allen, Freedom Summer volunteer in Holly Springs Mississippi. Interviewed by students at Stuart Hall High School in San Francisco. 2020. 121min.
Doris Derby: Memorial Service Video Rememberance, by Joyce Ladner, on Behalf of the SNCC Legacy Project (SLP). 2min
Linda Wetmore Halpern, Freedom Summer volunteer in Greenwood Mississippi. Interviewed by students at Stuart Hall High School in San Francisco. 2020.
Interview: Joyce Ladner, By Greg Ivers, 2019. NAACP & SNCC. 100min.
Interview: Jennifer Lawson, By Greg Ivers, 2019. SNCC. 92min.
Interview: Betty Garman Robinson, By Greg Ivers, 2019. SNCC. 66min.
Interview: Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Freedom Rides, SNCC, Mississippi. By Greg Ivers, 2019. SNCC. 86min.
Interview: Lonnie King, Atlanta Student Movement. By Gregg Ivers, 2018. 61min. Transcript.
Interview: Heather Tobis Booth, Freedom Summer volunteer. By Gregg Ivers, 2019. 64min. Transcript.
Interview: Jacqueline Byrd Martin, McComb MS student protester. By Gregg Ivers, 2020. 85min. Transcript.
Interview: Mike Miller, SNCC. By Gregg Ivers, 2020. 86min. Transcript.
Interview: Connie Curry, by Carole Merritt. Along with Ella Baker was a SNCC "adult advisor", active in Greensboro sit-ins and Mississippi school desegregation. 2005. 62min.
Interview: Jesse Hill, by Carole Merritt. NAACP 1950s voter registration activist, desegregation in Atlanta, founder Black newspaper Atlanta Inquirer, mobilized business support of the movement. 2005. 59min.
Interview: Portia Harden Potts, by Carole Merritt. One of the first African American students to desegregate schools in Atlanta, GA. 2006. 48min.
Interview: Fay Bellamy Powell, by Carole Merritt. SNCC staff member, Selma & Greene County, AL, Atlanta GA. Helped organize the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march., 2006. 150min.
1963 Freedom Vote ballot, unsigned COFO. November 3, 1964 1966 Press release re continuing problems & issues in Mississippi and America, Clifton Whitley (MFDP senatorial candidate) 1966 MFDP Statewide Convention flyer. Unsigned MFDP. 6/26/66 1966 Election Complaints -- Mississippi re the '66 Mid-Term elections, unsigned MFDP. Nov. 9, 1966 1966 Keep Power in Your Hands, flyer urging "Vote-No" on two referendum ballot measures in November 8 election. Unsigned MFDP 1966 Freedom's Candidate for U.S. Senate, Clifton Whitley campaign flyer. MFDP. November 8, 1966 1964 The Independent, the Freedom Voice of LeFlore Co., Vol III, No. 4. Unsigned, SNCC/COFO. July 25, 1964 1964 SNCC Staff Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1. "Not for public use." July 7, 1964 1964 SNCC Staff Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2. "Not for public use." July 28, 1964 1964 Freedom School Art Class registration form, Hattiesburg MS. Unsigned COFO. Undated (probably July 1964) 1964? McComb Background, Betty Garman, SNCC. Undated (possibly fall of 1964) 1964 Form: Request for Copy of Registration Test and Answers. Hattiesburg, MS. Unsigned SNCC/COFO. 1964 Dear Friend fund appeal to northern churches. Barbara Jones, SNCC. Fall 1964 1964 Memo: Subsistence for Volunteers in Mississippi fund appeal. Barbara Jones, SNCC. Fall 1964 1965 History and Plans of the Indianola Freedom School, chronicles struggle to rebuild bombed freedom center in Idianola MS. Unsigned COFO/SNCC. Undated (probably April 1965) Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
6/14/64 FoS Dear Friends of SNCC, memo promoting SNCC benefit by Second City. Chicago Area FoS. 2/11/65 FoS Note to Alice Kaplow re non-profit permit with Post Office, by Ken Champney, FoS Yellow Springs OH 5/26/65 SNCC Note to Alice Kaplow, re financial supporet money order by Margaret L., SNCC 65? 66? SDS The Grape Society, report on the Delano CA grape workers strike by unsigned SDS. Undated (probably late 1965 or early 1966) 65? 66? ???? Satyagraha in South Africa, by Fatima Meer. Undated (possibly 1965-1967) 4/26/66 FoS Dear Friend of Freedom, fund appeal from Monroe Sharp, SNCC Freedom Center, Chicago 4/27/66 NORC Fund appeal letter re public opinion research on Vietnam War, by Peter Rossi, National Opinion Research Center (NORC) 4/28/66 Letter & information challenging legality of and facts about Vietnam War, by L.T. Wyly 66-68? Report of Non-Group on the University, analyses of possible political action in Madison WI university & community. By unsigned. Undated (1966-68) 66-68? Memo discussing university-community political action in Madison WI, by unsigned. Undated (1966-68) Documents from the Free Speech Movement, Berkeley 1964
12/7/64 Open Letter, to many recipients, Charlie (Brown) Artman. December 7, 1964 12/64 Propositions to Be Introduced by the Committee on Academic Freedom, at the December 8th Meeting of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, unsigned. Undated (early December 1964) 12/8?/64 Proposed Resolutions(?), unsigned faculty members. December 8? 1964 12/9?/64 Statement to Regents opposing Academic Senate resolution supporting student free speech rights, unsigned (possibly a faculty member). Undated (probably December 9-10, 1964) 12/64 What Has the FSM Accomplished?, unsigned Executive Committee of University Students for Law and Order (unknown group). Undated (probably December 1964) 12/10/64 FSM Newsletter #5. December 10, 1964 (incorrectly printed as November) 12/13/64 Support appeal letter for FSM, Bay Area Friends of SNCC. December 13, 1964 12/64 Freedom of Speech Isn't Free flyer, unsigned Free Speech Defense Fund. Undated (after the December 3-4 mass arrests) 1965 The Berkeley Free Speech Controversy 25-page history, Eric Levine, Berkeley SDS. Undated 1965 1965 The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution (52 page pamphlet), Mario Savio, Eugene Walker, Raya Dunayevskaya, Bob Moses. July 1965 12/67 Crisis Report: An Analyses of the Present Struggle at Berkeley, 16-page pamphlet. Committee of Graduate Students. Undated December 1967 12/67 Crisis Report Number Two, 8-page paper, Irwin Silber, Campus Stop the Draft Week and Movement Against Political Suspensions. December 1967
3/2/64 Pat Vail Dear Family, letter re Boston school integration and other matters. 9/21/64 Unsigned SNCC A Response to the 13th and 14th Bombings in McComb Mississippi New Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
July A Report From Mississippi, Gail Falk, COFO July Dear Gang, Pat Vail, COFO 7/3 Dear Gang, letter re Greenville project and freedom schools. Pat Vail COFO 7/17 Dear Pat, support letter & donation from Operation Mississippi in Pittsburgh PA 7/25 Dear Pat, letter from Howard(?) Howe, Harvard Law School
Chude Pam Parker Allen Interview by high school students re Freedom Summer & after. 2020 Heather Tobis Booth Interview by Gregg Ivers re Freedom Summer and later activity. 2019.
PDF transcript VideoJimmy Garrett Interview by high school students re SNCC. 2020 Linda Halpern Interview by high school students re Freedom Summer in Greenwood, MS 2020 Bruce Hartford Jim Clark and the Commie Kike, a Selma story 2019 Bruce Hartford Interview by high school students re CORE & SCLC, Alabama & Mississippi. 2020 Jeanine Herron Interview by high school students re Mississippi. 2020 Lonnie King Jr. Interview by Gregg Ivers re Atlanta Student Movement and sit-ins. 2018
PDF transcript VideoJoyce Ladner Interview by Greg Ivers re SNCC, Hattiesburg. 2019 Jennifer Lawson Interview by Greg Ivers re SNCC, Alabama, Lowndes Co. 2019 Jacqueline Byrd Martin Interview by high school students re McComb MS student movement. 2020
PDF transcript VideoMike Miller Interview by high school students re SNCC. 2020
PDF transcript Video + bio & metadataJoan Trumpauer Mulholland Interview by Greg Ivers re Freedom Rides, SNCC, Mississippi. 2019 Mimi Feingold Real Interview by high school students re CORE, Freedom Rides & Louisiana. 2020 Betty Garman Robinson Interview by Greg Ivers re SNCC
No new commentaries added this month.
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
No new memories or tributes added this month
SNCC 60th Small Group "F" (Josh Gould, Janet Heinritz-Canterbury, Ed Nakawatase, Frances O'Brien, Muriel Tillinghast) SNCC 60th Small Group "H" (Miriam Cohen Glickman, Carol Rogoff Hallstrom, Faith Holsaert, Timothy Jenkins)
No new answers added this month.
The Poetry section is one of the most-visited parts of the site.
No new poems added this month.
Before I'll Be a Slave... Pins of the Civil Rights Movement Freedom Movement Art
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."
Memoirs Of A Revolution Experience Through Poetry And Poems, by Lulu Westbrook Griffin. Page Publishing Co, 2022. The personal story of a young activist in Southwest Georgia during the height of 1960s Freedom Movement who was held for 45 days in the infamous Leesburg stockade.
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (New Reprint). By Susan Erenrich (ed). New South Books, 2021. Large compilation of valuable original source material on Civil Rights Movement.
Run: Book One, by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin. Sequel to the March triology. "First you march, then you run." Graphic-novel format memoir by John Lewis recounting the Freedom Movement after passage of the Voting Rights Act — including the pushback of those who resist social change and refuse to accept racial equality and justice, and the continuing struggles of those who believe change has not gone far enough.
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider, by Charles Person. Gripping personal narrative by the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Rider who endured the racist violence in Alabama.
It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, by C.T. Vivian with Steve Fiffer. NewSouth Books, 2021. Personal memoir and observations by one of the key central figures in the Freedom Movement. From student sit-ins to the Freedom Rides to the battles for voting rights and a fair share of political and economic power, C.T. Vivian was on the ground in the action.
Fire at the Freedom House, by Matt Rinaldi. 2021. Personal memoir of a white activist working Attala County, Mississippi, in 1966 under the organizing direction of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) led by Lawrence Guyot and Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer.
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, by Julian Bond, Danny Lyon, Pamela Horowitz, & others. Beacon Press (2021). History & analysis of the Freedom Movement based on Julian's course lecture notes and his personal insights.
Doris Derby: A Civil Rights Journey, by Doris Derby. Mack Books. 2021. Photo and narrative autobiography by long-time SNCC veteran.
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 to webmaster@crmvet.org.
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