New SNCC Digital Movement Platform Links the Struggles of Past and Present The SNCC Legacy Project (SLP) is announcing the launch of its new digital platform, an unprecedented resource that connects modern day users to the mid-twentieth century Southern Civil Rights Movement. The site offers a range of resources, most notably images, primary-source, and personal-narratives, including material from our Civil Rights Movement Archive, the Black Power Chronicles and the SNCC Digital Gateway.
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According to Google, there were 15,261 visits to the CRMA website during September for an average of 509 per day. This is approximately 11% less than September of last year (during the peak of the pandemic). Roughly 76% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 350 to 700 per day.
As of October 1st, our online archive contains 8698 viewable items (documents, articles, images, etc) and 82 videos in our Vimeo video channel.
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 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. The SLP Digital Movement Platform connects modernday users to the mid-twentieth century Southern Civil Rights Movement.
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.
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.
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Now Available! Voting Rights in America — Two Centuries of Struggle, pamphlet by Bruce Hartford. For more than 200 years, "We the People" have fought to expand and protect our voting rights. This newly expanded and updated 4th Edition provides a 200-year long chronology of that struggle and a systematic overview of our modern fight to defend voting rights from Republican attack. An online web-version and PDF versions that groups can print out and use as they wish are provided.
Now Available! By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, by Margaret Burnham. Investigation of Jim Crow-era racial violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?
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 September were:
(Google does not count how often PDF files are accessed, so since most of the documents on our site are in PDF format 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.
New videos posted in September:
Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Reunion & Conference Collection, June 2014
The Freedom Struggle in Mississippi 1946-1964, Beverly Hogan (Tougaloo), Hollis Watkins (SNCC), Joyce Ladner (SNCC) and Derrick Johnson (NAACP). 68min.
The Historic Importance of Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964, Charlie Cobb, David Dennis, Marian Wright Edelman, and Robert "Bob" Moses. 80min
Roll Call of Freedom Summer Activists and Volunteers, 119min.
We are the children of the movement, Ayanna Gregory, 3min
This movement changed the world, Ayanna Gregory, 4min
Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Banquet
Welcome by Derrick Johnson, 4min
Statement of the Occasion, Julian Bond, 14min
The People of the Movement, Dave Dennis, 11min.
How Do We Thank Tougaloo? Hank Thomas, 8min
Keynote Address, Dick Gregory, introduction by Ayanna Gregory and Hollis Watkins. 80min
Voices of the 1965 Voting Rights Fight, panel discussion. 2015
Arlene Dunn: Interview, re Arkansas SNCC and anti-racism work with whites in the North with PAR, by Karlyn Foner, 2010. 49min. Transcript
Wallace Roberts: Interview re Freedom Summer & SNCC. By Orion Teal (SOHP). 2010. 45min. Transcript
Carol Rogoff: Interview re SNCC, Mississippi, E.W. Steptoe. By Orion Teal (SOHP). 2010. 84min. Transcript
The March. Documentary about the March on Washington by James Blue for United States Information Agency (USIA). For State Department use in Africa and elsewhere. 1964. 33min. King in the Wilderness HBO documentary film interviews by Peter Kunhardt:
Joan Baez Transcript Harry Belafonte Transcript Xerona Clayton, SCLC Transcript Dorothy Cotton, SCLC Transcript Marian Wright Edelman, LDF Transcript Richard Fernandez, CALCAV Transcript Mary Lou Finley, SCLC Transcript Tom Houck, SCLC Jesse Jackson, SCLC Transcript Clarence Benjamin Jones, SCLC Transcript Bernard Lafayette, SNCC/SCLC Diane Nash, SNCC Transcript Cleveland Sellers, SNCC Transcript C.T. Vivian, SCLC Transcript Andrew Young, SCLC Transcript
1948 What's Your Freedom Worth to You?, organizing brochure, Civil Rights Congress (CRC). Undated (believed 1948) 1952 Shop-Talk, Washington Interracial Workshop (CORE) newsletter, 2/12/52 1952 Shop-Talk, Washington Interracial Workshop (CORE) newsletter, 5/13/52 1952 Benefit Party flyer celebrating successful direct-action campaign to desegregate Rosedale playground in Washington DC, Washington Interracial Workshop (CORE), 11/22/52 1953 The Negro People in the United States, Howard Selsam, Jefferson School of Social Science (CPUSA). 32-page research analysis including 10-page civil rights timeline. 1955 Rosa Parks Arrest Report, December 1 1955. Montgomery Police Dept. 1958 Surveillance of suspected NAACP activity in Grenada, agents of Mississippi Soverignity Commission. 1/15/58 1959 Spy report that NAACP literature might have been found in Grenada, agent of Mississippi Soverignity Commission. 1/27/59 1960 Surveillance of NAACP activity in northern Mississippi and plan to integrate Grenada Lake swimming facilities, agents of Mississippi Soverignity Commission. 5/27-6/13/1960 1964 SNCC Press Lists, SNCC Communications Dept. Circa 1964 1965 Example flyers from the Selma Voting Rights Campaign: PDF collection HTML version (with notes) 1965 COFO News Notes #2, unsigned COFO. June 9, 1965 1965 Memo to Friends of SNCC re Mississippi Freedom Labor Union, Margaret Lauren, SNCC. June 9, 1965 1965 Memo On Bail, Barbara Brandt, SNCC. June 14, 1965 1965 Statement of the Congress of Racial Equality opposing the appointment of former-Governor Coleman to federal Court of Appeals, Alan Schiffmann, CORE. June 29, 1965 1965 Testimony opposing appointment of Coleman to federal court, John Lewis, SNCC. June 29, 1965 1969 Surveilance report on SCLC Poor Peoples march from Grenada, surveilance of small march by City police, Highway Patrol, Army Intelligence, and Mississippi Soverignity Commission. 6/12/69
8/64 COFO For Release Upon Receipt, fill-in-the-blanks type press release to be used by projects and individuals to build local support for the Atlantic City convention challenge. Undated (probably early August) Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
10/16/43 NCNW Flyer, Interracial Workshop and Monster Mass Meeting. National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). New York City. 12/57 UAW Fact Sheet, United Auto Workers Fair Practices Dept. 1963 SDS An Interracial Movement of the Poor? Tom Hayden and Carl Whitman (SDS) 25-page working paper. 6/63 SDS Liberal Analysis and Federal Power, Tom Hayden, SDS 2/64 CORE Boycott Lucky Stores to End Discriminatory Hiring, flyer by unsigned U.C. Berkeley Campus CORE 9/64 CORE Campus CORE: Read the CORElator flyer, by unsigned U.C. Berkeley Campus CORE 9/18/64 AdHoc Ad Hoc Committee gets unanimous endorsement re employment discrimination by the Oakland Tribune. Alameda Co. Central Labor Committee 12/12/64 AdHoc Ad Hoc's Comin', protest flyer against employment discrimination by the Oakland Tribune. Unsigned Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination 12/12/64 AdHoc Put an End to Discrimination, at the Oakland Tribune. Unsigned Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination 12/12/64 AdHoc Racial employement statistics at Oakland Tribune. Unsigned Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination 3/15/65 UCB Silent March, flyer. Memorial for Rev. Reeb murdered in Selma and other martyrs of the voting rights struggle. Unsigned Interfaith Leadership Council, U.C. Berkeley 4/22/65 CORE Discrimination in Hiring: How Much is it Worth?, protest flyer re Oakland restaurants. Unsigned Berheley CORE 4/23/65 CORE The Restaurants Are Putting Up a Helluva Fight...But We Shall Overcome, protest flyer re Oakland restaurants. Unsigned Berheley CORE 5/6/65 CORE Louisiana Summer, 1965, recruitment flyer for Louisiana summer project. U.C. Berkeley CORE 5/8/65 United Protest Demonstraton flyer, re harsh sentences imposed on nonviolent protesters, Oakland CA. Citizen Committee of Concern for Justice 12/65 FoS Freedom Christmas Volunteer Now recruitment flyer volunteer voter registration in the South. U.C. Berkeley Friends of SNCC
10/20/64 USDA Note to Greg Kaslo directing him to contact Rev. Meadows re Overall Economic Development Program report, (Clarke Co. MS) 10/64 Greg Kaslo, COFO Note to Rev. W.L. Meadows requesting Overall Economic Development Program report, undated 1964 (probably October 20-22) (Clarke Co. MS) 10/24/64 Heber Ladner, MS Note from Mississippi Secty of State responding to inquiry by Greg Laslo, (Clarke Co. MS) 10/25/64 Greg Kaslo, COFO Clarke County Project Report Oct 18-24 New Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
8/21 Activities report, Jackson area August 17-21. Unsigned NCC (Ministers Project?) 8/21 Report from Columbus MS, August 17-21. William O. Smith, Ministers Project? 8/22 The Ministers' Report, Canton MS. Arthur Byrd, Thomas L. McCray, NCC 9/1 Report Ministers Project, Hattiesburg MS. Aug 24-Sept 1. Fannie Bennet, NCC New Hattiesburg Report & Evaluation Forms
1964 James Whitehead Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, August 25, 1964 1964 William Bickel Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, undated 1964 1964 Jean Dimond Evaluation form, Hattiesburg Ministers Project, September 1964
Ever Johnson Jones-Allen Time For a Change: My Story of Freedom Summer, Panola Co. MS. 2022 Gloria Jean Tucker My Time as a SNCC Worker Panola County 2022. (MS)
1962 The Port Huron Statement, Tom Hayden and other SDS activists. June 15, 1962. (HTML version).
Al McSurley - CORE, SCEF, NAACP, 1961-present, VA, NC, KY
Ethel Minor
Voices of the 1965 Voting Rights Fight, panel discussion 2015
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.
Mississippi: Into the Storm Georgia on My Mind Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Selma, Lord, Selma Before I'll Be a Slave... In the Circle of Trust Freedom Movement Art
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, by Margaret Burnham, 2022. Investigation of Jim Crow-era racial violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?
Anne Braden Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1947-1999, Ben Wilkins, editor. Monthly Review Press, August 2022. Representative collection of Braden's writings, speeches, and letters, covering the full spectrum of her activism: from the relationship between race and capitalism, to the role of the South in American society, to the political function of anti-communism.
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 in to us.
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