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According to Google, there were 20,012 visits to the CRMA website during October for an average of 646 per day. This is approximately 11% less than October of last year (during the peak of the pandemic). Roughly 78% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 400 to 1000 per day.
As of November 1st, our online archive contains 8772 viewable items (documents, articles, images, etc). plus 92 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.
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 October 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 October:
Al, My Brother, By Cash Michaels. The story of 82-year old civil rights attorney/activist Alan McSurely, and his over 50-year battle against racism and white supremacy. 2018. 98min.
Charles Sherrod: Keynote Address at Race and Law Conference, to "50 Years After the Sit-Ins" conference at University of Virginia School of Law. 2010. 26min.
They Say I'm Your Teacher: the Story of the Citizenship Schools, by Lucy Massier Phenix and Veronica Selver, You Got to Move Shorts. 1985/2019. Story of Bernice Robinson, the Citizenship Schools and the clandestine struggle for voting rights in the 1950s. 9min.
We Have the Power, We Can Do It, the Story of Bill Saunders and the Charleston SC Hospital Workers' Strike, by Lucy Massier Phenix, You Got to Move Shorts. 2020, 13min.
E.D. Nixon and The Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Lucy Massier Phenix, You Got to Move Shorts. 1983/2021. 9min.
One More River to Cross, by Glen & Susan Percy. 1969/2012. About the movement in Southwest Georgia. 23min.
Interview: Jimmy Rogers, by students from The Urban School of San Francisco, 2010. SNCC veteran Jimmy Rogers discusses the movement in Alabama, Tuskegee University, Lowndes County, and the assassination of Jonathan Daniels. 120min.
Freedom in the Air A Documentary on Albany, Georgia (1961-1962), by Guy Carawan and Alan Lomax for SNCC, 1962. 41min. (Audio Only) Oral History Collection, Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Thomas M. Armstrong, Freedom Ridger & Mississippi NAACP activist. 69min. 2021.
David Fankhauser, Freedom Rider. 67min. 2021.
Maria Gitin, SCLC/SCOPE Wilcox Co. Alabama. 84min. 2021.
Jennifer Lawson, Birmingham student and SNCC organizer. 92min. 2021.
Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Selma student activist. 79min. 2021.
Dr. Wornie Reed, Montgomery bus boycott, March on Washington, People's Campaign. 95min. 2021
Betty Daniels Rosemond, CORE, Freedom Rider. 69min. 2021.
Robert Hicks: Interview by Mimi Feingold Real, 1967. Re Bogalusa LA Movement. 10min. Transcript
Hattie Hill (17): Interview by Mimi Feingold Real, 1967. Re Bogalusa LA Movement. 26min. Transcript
"We the People" National Conference Video Collection, by The Algebra Project, July 2022. 37 videos. The Rebellious Lifes of Mrs. Rosa Parks (trailer only). Peacock streaming. By Yoruba Richen & Johanna Hamilton, Soledad O'Brien Productions. Based on the book by Jeanne Theoharis. 2022. 65min. A Conversation with John O'Neal, 15min by FosterBear Films 2012. SNCC activist, co-founder of Free Southern Theater, and founding Artistic Director of Junebug Productions discusses the importance and power of stories and its role in creating social change.
???? Summer Honors College, proposal for a summer honors course titled "Social Change in the South." Willard Carpenter, college not identified (probably one of the Atlanta University Center HBCUs. Undated, probably before 1964 1964 Prospectus for the Summer, Mississippi Summer Project. Unsigned. Undated 1964 1964 General Prospectus for the Establishment of a Free Southern Theater, Doris Derby, Gilbert Moses, John O'Neal. Undated 1964 1964 King's Project for Alabama, unsigned (purported SCLC), undated, probably 1964. Povenance uncertain. 1965 Meeting For Future Action in Selma, SCLC March on Montgomery. Unsigned SCLC. March 23, 1965 1965 The Story of Selma: the Other Side of the Coin, Dallas County Alabama Chamber of Commerce. April 6, 1965 (Racist, anti-voting rights pamphlet.) 1966 Document Collection: 1966 Alabama Elections 1966 Alabama Democratic Primary ballot, Sumter County, May 3, 1966 1965 From the Selma University student rights campaign. April 1965 Facts About Selma University, criticisms and problems. Unsigned Selma University students. Undated Selma University Grievances and Recommendations, Unsigned Selma University students. Undated S.U. Realist #1, Unsigned Selma University students. 4/12/65 S.U. Realist #2, Unsigned Selma University students. 4/14/65 S.U. Realist #3, Unsigned Selma University students. 4/15/65 Signed Selma University student affadavits submitted to Board of Trustees. April 18-20, 1965 S.U. Realist #4, Unsigned Selma University students. 4/26/65
1964 Joe Stetson, application for Work on the Freedom Vote, MFDP. Fall 1964 Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
11/19/64 NSA Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom, flyer. Unsigned NSA, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison. 11/19/64 NSA Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom, flyer #2. Unsigned NSA, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison. 11/19/64 IEC IEC endorses Thanksgiving Fast for Freedom. Gary Cole, IEC, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison. 64&65 FoS Off-campus speaker permission registration forms for: Stokely Carmichael, Hazel Palmer, Madison FoS. 1/12/67 UFWOC Farm Workers Press stock certificate and staff photo, unsigned UFWOC. 10/3/65 Bruce Hartford, SCLC Dear West Family, letter to an activist family in Selma Alabama 10/67 The July Rebellions and the 'Military State', re summer urban uprisings. Jack O'Dell, Freedomways, 4th Quarter 1967
9/20/64 Unsigned, COFO/CORE Valley View Weekly Report, Sept. 14-20. Madison Co. MS 9/21/64 Arlene Bock, COFO/CORE Weekly Report, Sept 18-21, Canton & Madison Co, MS 9/23/64 Nancy Jervis, COFO/CORE Daily Report - Sept 20-23, Canton, MS 9/24/64 Judy Hampton, COFO/CORE Daily Report, Sept 20-24, Madison Co. MS 4/2/65 Bruce Hartford, SCLC Letter to Lyn Busch & Bruin CORE re Selma protests in late March 1965 4/7/65 Bruce Hartford, SCLC Letter to Lyn Busch & Bruin CORE re March to Montgomery 4/12/65 Bruce Hartford, SCLC Letter to Lyn Busch & Bruin CORE re Correspondents & hunger 5/19/65 Bruce Hartford, SCLC Letter to Lyn Busch & Bruin CORE re Selma situation and activities in May after the March to Montgomery 5/66 Bruce Hartford, SCLC List of poll watcher nominees, Hale Co. AL 5/3/66 Bruce Hartford, SCLC Beat & Box hand tally sheet, May 3rd primary election, Hale Co. AL 5/31/66 Unsigned, SCLC Election flyer, Greene Co. AL 1965 Selma Alabama & March to Montgomery letters collection, SNCC/SCLC. 1963-1965 1966 Alabama Elections: letters & reports collection, SNCC/SCLC. 1965-1966
Unidentified A Cup of Coffee (Mississippi) Robert Hicks Interview by Mimi Feingold, 1967. Re Bogalusa LA Hattie Hill Interview by Mimi Feingold, 1967. Re Bogalusa LA
1964 Aid the Albany, Georgia Movement Freedomways editorial opposing federal appeasement of segregationists and persecution of Freedom Movement Activists. Spring 1964. 1964 What Price Freedom? James Baldwin. Freedomways, Spring 1964
No new commentaries added this month.
Susan Pearcy - SW Georgia Project, 1967-68, 1971-72
Rev. Charles Sherrod
The Poetry section is one of the most-visited parts of the site.
Lynn Barnes Sestina for the South Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely Sherrod! Our spirit leader
Before I'll Be a Slave...
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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