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According to Google, there were 31708 visits to the CRMA website during March for an average of 1023 per day. This is approximately 10% less than April of last year (during the the pandemic with many school on remote learning), but 26% more than April of 2020 before the pandemic. Roughly 16% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 700 to 1500 per day.
As of April 1st, our online archive contains 9040 searchable pages, documents, and images plus 152 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.
59th Annual Mississippi Memorial Service, Conference & Tour June 24-25, 2023. Philadelphia, MS
Information Request from a Book Author: For a biography of SNCC's JAMES FORMAN, I'd appreciate hearing from those who worked with him in the 1960s and 70s. Thanks, Gary May.
Professor Emeritus of History
University of Delaware
garymay@udel.edu
Author of Bending Toward Justice: the Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy.Now Available: My Country Is the World: Staughton Lynd's Writings, Speeches, and Statements against the Vietnam War, edited by Luke Smith. Foreword by Staughton and Alice Lynd.. Haymarket Books, 2023.
Now Available: The Struggle of Struggles, by Vera Pigee (1924-2007), edited by Frangoise Hamlin, University Press of Mississippi. 2023. New edition of Vera Pigee autobiography excavated by editor Frangoise Hamlin from Pigee's self-published 1970 autobiography. Chronicles Coahoma County MS, NAACP, Women's leadership, grassroots organizing, citizenship schools, voter registration, and the Baptist church.
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 March 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 March:
The Road to Mississippi Reclaiming Our History, by Grito Productions with Through Our Eyes Video and History Project. 1990. Students at Schomburg Satellite Academy (NYC) analyze the Hollywood film Mississippi Burning, that misrepresents the lynching of Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman. 29min. (See also Commentaries on Mississippi Burning.)
60th-1: The Power Of The Past, We who believe in freedom cannot rest. By SNCC Legacy Project (SLP), 82min.
60th-2: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 70min. Transcript.
60th-3: Lowndes County Freedom Party (LCFP), Black Power, political educational, organizing strategies, voting rights, political power. 70min. Transcript.
60th-4: Making Our Way Into Political Office To Make Change, Power of office, policy, legislative and financial needs of the Black community. 59min. Transcript.
60th-5: Organizing The Black Community To Vote, Electoral organizing strategies: presidential, state and local. 2020, 2022, 2024. 71min. Transcript.
60th-6: The Fight For The MS Educational Ballot Initiative, Mississippi "education is essential" ballot initiative. 67min.
60th-7: Attorneys General and District Attorneys, Justice, district attorneys, attorneys general, legal systems, and voters. 72min. Transcript.
60th-9: Criminal Justice: Effecting Change, Addressing police violence and criminal justice disparities. 78min. Transcript.
60th-10: Changing The Mission Of The Criminal Justice System. 78min. Transcript.
60th-11 Economic Power And Economic Security, Politics, economics, and the wellbeing of the Black community. 72min. Transcript.
1956 The Southern Manifesto (racist), Senator Harry Byrd, 19 southern Senators, 77 southern House members. March 12, 1956 1964 Complaint to Therron Lynd, County Clerk, Forrest Co. MS re treatment of Black voter registration applicants. Frank Smith, COFO/SNCC. 1/28/64 1964 Memo: Fundraising with women's groups, re Joyce Barrett tour. Betty Garman, SNCC. May 10, 1964 1965 SNCC Executive Committee Minutes, Sherron Jackson, SNCC. April 14, 1965. (Detailed list of SNCC staff assingments & discussion of program.) 1965 Memo to Alicia Kaplow, re funds for Buddy Teiger. Margaret, SNCC. May 6, 1965 1965 Memo to Alicia Kaplow re campus poll-tax fundraising, Esther Heifetz, SNCC. May 8. 1965 1965 Equal Opportunity in Hospitals and Health Facilities, Civil Rights Policies Under the Hill-Burton Program. U.S. Civil Rights Commission. March 1965 1968 Civil Rights Under Federal Programs, An Analysis of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. U.S. Civil Rights Commission. 1968 Cycle to Nowhere, re continuing economic injustice in Alabama. Paul Good, U.S. Civil Rights Commission. WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC October 20 1963. Arrests in Jackson MS for attempted integration of services at white churches.
SNCC October 21 1963. Evening field reports.
SNCC October 21 1963. Jackson & Selma field reports
SNCC October 22 1963. Greenwood & Indianola field reports, Sam Block, arrests for distributing pamphlets
SNCC October 22 1963. Avery Wilson & Wilson Brown arrested in Alabama
SNCC October 22 1963. Jackson field report.
SNCC October 22 1963. Freedom rally in Greenwood MS.
SNCC October 23 1963. Bob Moses reports arrests in Indianola and Clarksdale
SNCC October 23 1963. Arrests for distributing campaign literature in Clarksdale and Indianola MS
SNCC October 23 1963. Bob Moses & Stephen Bingham arrested in Clarksdale, Selma voter registration effort
SNCC October 23 1963. Arrests in Lumbarton MS for campaign literature.Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
4/12/65 FoS Note requesting information on SNCC, Judy Ohnesorge 4/15/65 FoS Letter denying postal bulk rate to FoS, John Whitmore, USPS 4/17/65 FoS Note re Working in The Movement (handwritten), Collin Minert 5/4/65 FoS Letter re fundraising and donation, Kenneth Friou, UCC
10/10/64 Arlene Bock, COFO Weekly report, MS 10/11/64 Myrtis Evans, COFO Weekly report, Rankin Co. MS (handwritten) 10/11/64 Phil Sharp, COFO Daily Reports, Canton MS 10/11/64 Tom Ramsay, COFO Weekly reports, Canton MS 10/11/64 Elayne Delott, COFO Weekly reports, Canton MS 4/17/65 Karen Koonan, SNCC Note to Alicia Kaplow re subsistance (handwritten), MS 5/1/65 Eugene Hite, MFLU Note to Alicia Kaplow re subsistance and MFLU (handwritten), Mayersville, MS 5/5/65 Charles Hartfield, SNCC Letter to Alicia Kaplow, re work in Mississippi
Ken Cloke My Memories of the Civil Rights Movement, 2023 Lillian McGill Interview, by Jennifer Lawson & Courtland Cox, re Lowndes County Alabama movement
1968 Black Belt Alabama, the Negro in the Rural South, unsigned U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Civil Rights Digest article. Photos by Jim Peppler. April 1968 1968 Politicall Participation, re continued voting rights denial despite Voting Rights Act, Joseph Rauh (LCCR). Civil Rights Digest (CCR), Summer 1968
The White Supremacist Attack on Education, Feb 27, 2023 SNCC Legacy Project (SLP)
Charles Lawrence - SCLC/SCOPE, 1966 GA, MS
Frances Montgomery Steele - SNCC, 1963-65, AL GA
SNCC Anniversary Conference Discussions ~ 2000, 2010, 2021
SNCC 60th #2: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ~ Video
SNCC 60th #3: Lowndes County Freedom Party (LCFP) ~ Video
SNCC 60th #4 ~ Making Our Way Into Political Office To Make Change ~ Video
SNCC 60th #5 ~ Organizing The Black Community To Vote ~ Video
SNCC 60th #7 ~ Attorneys General and District Attorneys ~ Video
SNCC 60th #9 ~ Criminal Justice ~ Effecting Change ~ Video
SNCC 60th #11 Economic Power And Economic Security ~ Video
SNCC 50th #1 ~ Opening Plenary
2010 SNCC 50th #2 ~ Early Student Movement Philosophy and Activism
2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010
SNCC 40th #1 ~ Conference welcome and remembrance of Ms. Ella Baker
2000 2000 SNCC 40th #3 ~ Ella Baker discussion continued and general discussion
2000 SNCC 40th #4 ~ Workshop discussing strategies and tactics of organizing
2000 SNCC 40th #5 ~ The role of struggle in the development of a democratic society
2000 SNCC 40th #6 ~ Remembrances of the first meeting organizing SNCC
2000 2000
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Web Links and Bibliography updated, revised, & expanded.
Recent Books by or About Movement Veterans:
My Country Is the World: Staughton Lynd's Writings, Speeches, and Statements against the Vietnam War, edited by Luke Smith. Foreword by Staughton and Alice Lynd. Haymarket Books, 2023.
The Struggle of Struggles, by Vera Pigee (1924--2007), edited by Frangoise Hamlin, University Press of Mississippi. 2023. New edition of Vera Pigee autobiography chronicles Coahoma County MS, NAACP, Women's leadership, grassroots organizing, citizenship schools, voter registration, and the Baptist church.
A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi, by Joe Bateman, Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, and Richard Arvedon. How the civil rights movement unfolded in a small rural town, far from the cameras.
Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey, by Dan Berger, Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons. An authorized biography of Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons that brings into focus the lives of two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom. Basic Books, January 2023.
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, by Margaret Burnham, 2023. 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.
RECENT FILMS & VIDEOS By or About Movement Veterans:
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, by Sam Pollard & Geeta Gandbhir, Multitude Films in association with The Atlantic. Story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County. 2022. 90min.
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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