According to Google, 13,862 people visited the website during June for an average of 462 per day. This low number reflects our traditional summer-doldrums when most U.S. schools are out of session. Roughly 27% of our visitors came from outside the U.S.
As of July 1st, our online archive contains 8556 items.
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CRMA and Duke University We're very pleased to announce that the Civil Rights Movement Archive (CRMA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Duke University Libraries and the John Hope Franklin Research Center (JHFRC) designating them as the stewards who will preserve and sustain the CRMA into the future when we are no longer able to carry the work forward. They have committed to maintaining the site as a free source of Freedom Movement materials and information that is open to all with no paywall, commercial advertising, login-requirements, or subscription. And to continue documenting the Civil Rights Movement from up-from-the-bottom and inside-out perspectives and viewpoints. For now, we will continue to fund the work out of our own pockets and from the donations that people like you contribute, while Duke Libraries and the JHFRC provide technical support, backup, and other forms of assistance. |
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.
July 28-30th: We the People Math Literacy for All Online Conference to celebrate and carry forward the vision and work of Bob Moses and the Algebra Project. Conference Information. Free Registration.
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.
According to Google, our top-five, most-visited pages in June 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 is not as accurate as we wish it were.)
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.
60? 61? SNCC News Report Form, unsigned SNCC. Undated (possibly between 1960-later 1962) 62? 63? SNCC News Report Form, unsigned SNCC. Undated (probably between late 1962 and late 1963) 62? 63? Some Instructions on Press Coverage, Reporting to the Atlanta SNCC Office. Unsigned SNCC. Undated (probably between late 1962 and late 1963) 1963 Complaint to Executive Committee, re dismissal from SNCC staff. Sheila Michaels, SNCC. Undated (1963) 1963 Letter to Howard Zinn from Sandra (Casey) Hayden, re SNCC fundraising in the North. 9/11/63 1963 The Freedom Fighter, unsigned Ku Klux Klan. December 1963 1964? Report: New York SNCC Office, Jim Monsonis, SNCC. Undated (probably late 1963 or 3arly 1964) 1964 Memo re upcoming Executive Committee Meeting, John Lewis, SNCC. 5/26/64 1964 Mississippi Faces Challenge, MFDP flyer passed out in Atlantic City. August 1964. 1964 Dear Parent of Mississippi Summer Volunteers, letter regarding convention challenge. Walter Tillow, MFDP. July 28, 1964 1964 Bail, memo to Friends of SNCC re need for bond funds. Barbara Jones, SNCC. 10/7/64 1964? County MFDP Meeting notes (handwritten), unsigned MFDP. Undated (possibly 12/21/64) 64? 65? Proposal on Bail Bond Research, unsigned Program Department, SNCC. Undated (possibly 1964-1966) 1965 CORE Federal Funds Reports (resources), Judi Nusbaum
Report #2 (research grant recipients listed)
Report #3 (college scholarships) March '65
Report #4 (business grant recipients) March '65
Report #5 (education grant recipients) April '65
Report #7 (business grant recipients) April '65
Report #8 (business grant recipients) May '651965? An Example of How the Poor Peoples Corporatio Might Work. Unsigned, SNCC? Undated (possibly 1965) 1965? Memo: A SNCC African Project, Dona Richards, SNCC. Undated (possibly September 1965 or '66) 1965 Memo: Next Executive Committee Meeting, unsigned SNCC Program Depoartment. 9/15/65 1965 Memo to Defunct Executive Committee Members, Muriel Tilinghast, SNCC. 9/23/65 1965 Response to "defunct" excom members memo, Howard Zinn, SNCC. 9/30/65 1966 Second Birthday of MFDP flyer, unsigned MFDP. Undated (probably 4/24/66) 1966? See Victoria Gray and Fannie Lou Hamer flyer, unsigned MFDP. Undated (possibly May 24 of 1965 or 1966) 1966? Time Table of Events (election-related). Unsigned MFDP. Possibly September of 1966 1966? Mississippi Local Election results for county offices with MFDP candidates. Unsigned MFDP. Undated (probably November 1966) WATS Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC July 11, 1964
SNCC July 16, 1964
SNCC July 25, 1964
SNCC July 25-31, 1964
4/10/63 SNCC Hundreds of Students Gather at SNCC Easter Conference Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
6/10/64 CORE Proposed plan of action against Bank of America, Bill Bradley, Will Ussery, Western Region CORE 7/21/65 CORE Join Our Demonstration Against Police Malpractice, flyer. Ad Hoc Committee to End Police Malpractices (Venice CA CORE) 8/3/65 N-VAC Letter to Bruce Hartford re Los Angeles sit-in trial, Hugh Manes, Attorney 9/65 DuBois The Coordinator, W.E.B. DuBois Club (SoCal) newsletter focusing on Anti-Vietnam coaltion. Undated (possibly September 1965) 9/9/65 CORE Proposal: New Direction of Los Angeles CORE, Don Smith, Chairman. 8/65 Plea of a Riot Victim Negro, response to the Watts Uprising (Los Angeles). Unsigned United Veterans Club. Undated (presumed August or September 1965)
4/6/63 Mendy Samstein, SNCC Dear Howie, letter to (Howard Zinn?) re planning a trip for movement organizers. 3/23/64 Dorothy Zellner, SNCC Dear Jim, letter to Jim Forman re dire personal and SNCC financial situation 10/14/64 Pat Vail, COFO Dear Gang, report on work in Mississippi from the Greenville project 11/15/64 Pat Vail, COFO Dear Family, re Greenville MS project 11/20/64 David Novick, COFO Dear Lisa, letter/report on work in Sharkey & Issaquena Counties MS 1/10/65 Pat Vail, COFO Dear Family, letter about Greenville MS project & local family 2/23/65 Pat Vail, COFO Dear Group, letter about Movement work in Mississippi 2/11/66 Lyn Busch, CORE Dear Bruce, letter to Bruce Hartford in jail for sitting-in (handwritten). CA. 2/21/66 Mrs. E. Risley Dearest Bruce, letter to Bruce Hartford in jail for sitting-in. CA. New Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
8/11 Report on the activities of an NCC counsellor, Rev. Felix Danford Lion.
Julie Armstrong Interview, re Birmingham school integration, by Willoughby Anderson (SOHP), 2005 Arlene Dunn Interview, re Arkansas SNCC and anti-racism work with whites in the North with PAR, by Karlyn Foner, 2010 Rev. David Forbes Interview, re Raligh sit-ins, SNCC founding, by Dwana Waugh (SOHP), 2010 Alan McSurley Oral-History Interview — Audio
1962 Just a Matter of Timing? Critique of Kennedy administration inaction on civil and voting rights. Tom Hayden, SDS. Liberation, October 1962 1964 Mission in Mississippi, Jerry DeMuth, SNCC. (Hattiesburg Ministers Project). Draft. 8/19/64 1965 Statement by Bruce Hartford to Judge Nebron before being sentenced for a sit-in arrest, 11/15/65 1966 A Negro Looks at the Vietnam War, by C.E. Wilson. Liberation, March 1966. 1966 Electoral Politics and the Movement Eric Mann, Liberation. June 1966.
Civil Rights Activists Fought for America's Democracy, They Should be Honored as Veterans, David Dennis Jr.
SCLC/SCOPE Wall of Memory Mike Lesser, CORE
No new answers added this month.
The Poetry section is one of the most-visited parts of the site.
Dona Richards Apology to Africa, undated.
March on Washington
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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