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According to Google, there were 15,136 visits to our website during June for an average of 505 per day. This low number reflects our traditional summer-doldrums when most U.S. schools are out of session. Roughly 31% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. This relatively high percentage reflects the summer-vacation decline in use by American students.
As of July 1st, our online archive contains 9305 searchable pages, documents, and images plus 209 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.
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 1950-1970. See Submissions details.
According to Google, our top-five, most-visited sections and pages in June were:
Section Contents, Landing & Reference Pages
- Freedom Movement Photo Album
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote? — Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Documents From the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
Individual Pages & Documents
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1955 (Emmett Till, Montgomery Bus Boycott)
(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 June:
60th-18 HBCUs and Africana Studies Programs, Cultural preservation, passing down generational knowledge, the role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Black Studies, and Africana programs. 71min.
60th-19 Black-Brown Movement Building, Rachel Gilmer, Paul Ortiz, Zoharah Simmons, Maria Varela. 71min.
60th-20 Where Do We Go From Here?, What must we do to strengthen and protect the Black community? How will technological and demographic change affect Black struggle? 67min.
60th-21 Telling And Teaching The SNCC Story, SNCC Digital Gateway (SDG), Civil Rights Movement Archive (CRMA), Zinn Education Project. 65min.
SNCC 50th #14 ~ The Impact and Influence of SNCC on American Society 1960-1968, Vincent Harding (SNCC & SCLC Advisor), Charles Payne (Univ. of Chicago) Taylor Branch (Author), Clayborne Carson (Stanford Univ.), Tom Hayden (SDS) 117min.
SNCC 40th #13 ~ Welcoming remarks; history of SNCC, Welcoming remarks & Julian Bond on the history of SNCC.55min.
SNCC 40th #14 Baker award: The Algebra Project; Jamil Al-Amin, 35min.
SNCC 40th #15 Workshop on strategies and tactics for organizing. Muriel Tillinghast, Victoria Gray and Lawrence Guyot. 41min.
SNCC 40th #16 The Importance of Building Alliances . 60min.
SNCC 50th #15 ~ What was SNCC and how did it evolve?, Joyce Ladner, Timothy Jenkins, Cleveland Sellers, Zohorah Simmons. 103min. Transcript.
SNCC 50th #16 ~ Political Impact of SNCC 1964-1984, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Courtland Cox, Julian Bond. 95min. Transcript.
SNCC 50th #17 Luncheon Keynote - Harry Belafonte, Rev. David Forbes, Dr. Dorothy Yancy. 65min. Transcript.
Dr. Alton Hornsby, Jr, ASM. By Carole Merritt. Re Atlanta Student Movement, march on the Georgia State Capitol 1960, segregated busses. 2006. 59min.
Ralph Luker, NAACP. By Carole Merritt. Re Raleigh, North Carolina; Duke University; Georgia movement; youth branches of the NAACP. 2005 61min.
Charles Black, ASM. By Carole Merritt . Re Atlanta Student Movement, prison farm, women in the movement, Atlanta mayoral election, desegregation voter registration. 75min.
Ernest Swann, student integrator. By Carole Merritt. Re desegregation of Atlanta public schools, white resistance. 2006. 57min.
Living the Story: Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky, by Brannon & Rouse, Kentucky Historical Society, 2002. 58min.
St. Augustine Movement Video Collection.
Robert Hayling, by Andrew Young. St. Augustine, Movement leader, arrest of Dr. King, marches, rallies, shootings, Klan assault. 34min.
1963 Role Playing: A Guide For Its Use by SNCC Representatives, Unsigned. Undated (possibly 1963) 63? 64? Southwest Georgia Voter Registration Project, strategic analyses and proposed project plan. Undated (possibly 1963 or 1964) 1964 Contacts potential contacts for White Community project, Gene Guerrero, SNCC. Freedom Summer. 1964 Note from a parent granting permission for daughter to participate in Freedom Summer, Robert McNeill. 5/8/64 1964 Memo: Mississippi White Community Project Jim Dombrowski, SCEF. 6/25/64 1964 Dear Ed letter to Ed Hammett re reservations about the white commuity project. Bruce Maxwell, COFO. Freedom Summer. 1964 Janet McNeill's Freedom Summer Application Form, June 8, 1964. 1964 Dear Ed note from Diana Chiarky re Freedom Summer scheduling and subsistence 1964 Sue Thrasher's Freedom Summer Registration Form, June 26, 1964. 1964 Information & rules for white community project volunteers unsigned COFO (possibly Ed Hammett). Freedom Summer 64? 65? Involving Workers in the Movement: Proposal to Unions Mike Miller, SNCC, Undated (possibly September of 1964 or '65). SNCC Newsletter, May 1967. Vietnam War, Vietnam Summer, Washington SNCC office, Muhammad Ali
Southern Patriot, SCEF June 1962, Southern students, Mississippi courage, Houston sit-ins, Brenda Travis, Augusta GA, Peace Walk
WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC WATS Compilation #148, August 20-22, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #149, August 15-16, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #150, August 17-18, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #152, August 22, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #153, August 23-25, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #154, August 25-26, 1965
SNCC WATS Compilation #155, August 26-27, 1965
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
7/19/64 Ed, Johnnie, Len, Diane, COFO Report re Talk at Millsap College Jackson, MS 7/22/64 Ed Hamlett, COFO Daily Report Form, Biloxi, MS 7/24/64 Gene Guerrero, COFO Gene Guerrero Daily Report Form, Biloxi, MS 7/24/64 Ed Hamlett, COFO Daily Report Form 10/18/64 Karen Duncan, COFO Daily Report, Oct 12 - Oct 18. Madison Co. MS. 10/18/64 Judi Hampton, CORE/COFO Daily Report, Oct 13 - Oct 18. Madison Co. MS. 10/25/64 Rev. J. Raymond Sikkel, DM A Continuing Reformation, re why work in Mississippi with the Delta Ministry? 10/27/64 Phil Sharp, COFO Daily Report, Madison Co. MS
No new stories added this month.
NCNW: National Conference of Negro Women (1935-1970)
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
SNCC 60th #15 The Importance of Land; Food Insecurity
SNCC 60th #17 The Path Forward
SNCC 60th #19 ~ Black-Brown Movement Building
SNCC 60th #20 ~ Where Do We Go From Here?
SNCC 60th #21 ~ Telling And Teaching The SNCC Story
SNCC 50th #12 ~ Southwest Georgia—Do You Want To Be Free
SNCC 50th #13 ~ Arkansas, Cambridge MD, Danville VA, Everybody Say Freedom
SNCC 50th #14 ~ The Impact and Influence of SNCC on American Society 1960-1968
SNCC 50th #15 ~ What was SNCC and how did it evolve?
SNCC 50th #16 ~ Political Impact of SNCC 1964-1984
SNCC 50th #17 ~ Luncheon Keynote - Harry Belafonte Rev. David Forbes
No new answers added this month.
No new poems added this month.
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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