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According to Google, there were 34,066 visits to the CRMA website during May for an average of 1099 per day. This is approximately 10% more than May of last year (during the pandemic). Roughly 18% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 800 to 1300 per day.
As of June 1st, our online archive contains 9248 searchable pages, documents, and images plus 197 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
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 sections and pages in May were:
Section Contents, Landing & Reference Pages
- Photo Album
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote? — Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
Individual Pages & Documents
- What were the failures of the Civil Rights Movement? (FAQ)
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
- Photo Album — Freedom Movement in Art
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
(Google does not count how often PDF files are accessed. Since most of our documents are in PDF format, the "Top Five" lists are not all that accurate.)
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:
Hardy Frye ~ Everyone Was a Leader, 6min. Transcript.
Willie B. Wazir Peacock ~ "Oh Freedom", 5min.
Willie B. Wazir Peacock ~ Fighting for Freedom in the Mississippi Delta, 9min. Transcript.
SNCC 60th-14 Affordable Housing, safe neighborhoods, 79min. Transcript.
SNCC 60th-15 The Importance of Land; Food Insecurity. 62min. Transcript.
SNCC 60th-17 The Path Forward, Racial divisions, securing rights, create the benefits a democratic and equitable society, vision61min. Transcript.
SNCC 50th #10 ~ Moving On Mississippi—We Had to Be Strong, Hollis Watkins (SNCC Field Secretary), Brenda Travis (Pike County Nonviolent Movement), Rev. Willie Blue (SNCC Field Secretary), 80min. Transcript.
SNCC 50th #11 Alabama ~ Turning To Ourselves, Black power as articulated by SNCC, Lowndes County, Alabama, 86min. Transcript.
SNCC 50th #12 Southwest Georgia—Do You Want To Be Free, SNCC Project Director Charles Sherrod, Rutha Harris SNCC Field Secretary, Shirley Sherrod. 76min. Transcript.
SNCC 50th #13 Arkansas, Cambridge MD, Danville VA, Everybody Say Freedom, 83min. Transcript.
SNCC 40th #10 and #11 ~ Installation of a historic marker for SNCC in Raleigh, NC, SNCC Freedom Singers, officials from Shaw University and the City of Raleigh. 60min.
SNCC 40th #10 and #11 ~ Installation of a historic marker for SNCC in Raleigh, NC, SNCC Freedom Singers, officials from Shaw University and the City of Raleigh. 60min.
SNCC 40th #12 ~ The legacy of Ms. Ella Baker, Jacqueline Brockington, Victoria Gray and Bob Moses. 48min. Transcript.
New Audio recordings added in April
Elmo Jacobs Interview by Mimi Feingold re Jonesboro LA. 5min. Transcript
Annie Johnson Interview by Mimi Feingold re Jonesboro LA. 11min. Transcript
The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride by David J. Dennis Jr. and David J. Dennis Sr. 61min.
1963 Survey: Current Field Work (original). Unsigned SNCC. Spring 1963. Southwest Georgia, Central Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas. 1963 Dear Ed letter re SCEF/SNCC organizational matters & accusation that SCEF is "Communist," Anne Braden, SCEF. May 19, 1963. 1963 Dear Faith, what's happening? note from Julian Bond to Faith Holsaert. Jan 24, 1963. Re Albany Georgia. 1964 Letter to Ed re working with SNCC in Southwest Georgia. Anne Braden, SCEF. February 1, 1964 1964? Report on attempt to connect with unions in Mississippi Whitman, Charlie, Gene, SNCC. July8-10, 1964? 1964 Frederick Douglas Free Press newsletter, Vol 1 No 1. SNCC Selma AL office, October 2, 1964. 1964 Frederick Douglas Free Press newsletter, Vol 1 No 2. SNCC Selma AL office, October 2, 1964. 1964 Dear Friend, support appeal for Congressional Challenge, Rogoff, Liken & Garvey, SNCC. Undated (probably December 1964) 1965 Enforcement of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Congressional Quarterly. As of end of March 1965. Detailed analyses 1965 Sweeping Voting Rights Bill Proposed in 1965 Congressional Quarterly. Detailed analysis of bill submitted to Congress, March 17, 1965. 1965 Report on Mississippi Voter Registration, as of September. Unsigned, MFDP. Undated (probably October 1965) 1965 School Tuition Law, MS. Unsigned MFDP. October 1965. 1965 General Report on Welfare in Mississippi, MS. Freedom Info Center for MFDP. October 1965 1965 Report on Mississippi Voter Registration, as of September. Unsigned, MFDP. Undated (probably October 1965) 1966 We Have No Government, Delta Ministry testimony re occupation of Greenville Air Force Base. Isaac Foster, Unita Blackwell, Ida Mae Lawrence. 2/1/66 1966 With a good deal of pride, Liberty House promotional mailing. 2/2/66 1966 A Congressman Speaks about Mississippi, MFDP, and Delta Ministry, Unsigned, MFDP. 2/9/66 1966 Fact Sheet on Sunflower County, Mississippi, Unsigned (possibly SNCC) 2/66 WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC March 22, 1964. Mendy Samstein, George Greene re police harrassment, violence & arrests in Ruleville MS
SNCC March 23, 1964. Rev. Tobias & daughter re threats, violence, & people run out of Liberty MS
SNCC April 6, 1964. NAACP youth council members arrested for picketing in Biloxi MS
SNCC April 11, 1964. Herman Gates (17) re the movement, violence, and arrests in Belzoni MS
SNCC May 13, 1964. Clifford Vaughs, re protest marches, trials, violence and National Guard troops, Cambridge MD
SNCC May 18, 1964. Joann Bowman report re Sovereignty Commission conspiracy & 'Ole Miss university.
SNCC WATS Compilation #140, August 2, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #141, August 3, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #142, August 4-5, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #143, August 6, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #144, August 7, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #145, August 7-9, 1965
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
61? 62? SSFF Fund appeal, Southern Student Fund Appeal, UC Berkeley. Undated (probably Fall 1961 to early 1962) 5/23/63 SCLC Freedom in Birmingham, mass march up Market Street flyer, SCLC & San Franciso supporters ???? UNITE! Unite! Newsletter of UNITED (United Neighbors Integrated Through Education and Dedication), Richmond CA. Undated. Fall '67 SFSC End Campus Complicity With the Vietnam War, San Francisco State College
ROTC & War-Recruiters Off-Campus (14 Documents)
War Crisis Convocation (16 Documents)New collection: Students for a Democratic Soiciety Documents (SDS) 4/68 SDS The Americana Game, San Francisco State College SDS.
1/17/65 Linda Allenstein, COFO Dear Dick, re Lauderdale Co. MS 3/17/65 Septima Clark, SCLC Dear Friend, re tribute to Rosa Parks 3/20/65 Unsigned CORE/COFO Canton Project Personnel Report, MS 3/22/65 Unsigned COFO Staff Meeting Madison County COFO, MS 3/25/65 Eunice Armstrong Dear Lucy, letter to Lucy Montgomery Fall '65 Bruce Hartford, SCLC To whom it may concern in SDS, (a snarky criticism). Undated (probably Fall 1965) New Letters & Reports From SCLC's SCOPE Projects of 1965
Mass meeting flyer, unsigned, SCOPE. 7/13/65 Commendation letter, Robert Jones, Chico State College. 12/8/65 Fund appeal letter for Virginia SCLC, Herbert Coulton, SCLC. 10/67 Letter appealing for support, Herbert Coulton, SCLS. 10/67
Elmo Jacobs Interview re Jonesboro LA Audio Annie Johnson Interview re Jonesboro LA Audio Jerome Smith (CORE) Louisiana Story, interview by Freedomways, 1964
1950 Forge Negro-Labor Unity for Peace and Jobs, Paul Robeson (CPUSA). Speech to National Labor Conference for Negro Rights, June 1950. 1965 Text of President Johnson's Voting Rights Message address to the nation, March 13, 1865
No new commentaries added this month.
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
SNCC 60th #12 Education for Self Determination ~ Video
SNCC 60th #13 The Artist as Activist ~ Video
SNCC 60th #14 Affordable Housing, safe neighborhoods ~ Video
SNCC 60th #15 The Importance of Land; Food Insecurity ~ Video
SNCC 60th #17 The Path Forward, Video
SNCC 50th #8 ~ Up South: We Raised Money, We Raised Hell ~ Video
SNCC 50th #9 ~ More than a Hamburger ~ Video
SNCC 50th #10 Moving on Mississippi ~ We Had to be Strong Video
SNCC 50th #11 Alabama ~ Turning To Ourselves ~ Video
SNCC 40th #8 ~ Ms. Ella Baker's role in the founding of SNCC ~ Video
SNCC 40th #9 ~ Chuck McDew's remembrances; Ella Baker as mentor (Ladner) ~ Video
SNCC 40th #10 and #11 ~ Installation of a historic marker for SNCC in Raleigh, NC ~ Video
No new answers added this month.
No new poems added this month.
The Sit-Ins — Off Campus and Into Movement
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."
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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