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According to Google, there were 11,428 visits to our website during July for an average of 369 per day. This number reflects our traditional summer-doldrums when most U.S. schools are out of session. Roughly 28% of our visitors came from outside the U.S.
As of August 1st, our online archive contains 9745 searchable pages, documents, and images plus 214 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.
Available at end of August: Standing, by Ernest McMillan. Deep Vellum, 2023. Memoir of a SNCC organizer's coming-of-age through the Freedom Movement — Atlanta GA sit-ins, voter-registration in rural Georgia, Selma Alabama, 1964 Democratic Convention Challenge, Texas SNCC, Black Power, welfare rights, prison, and more.
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 July were:
Section Contents, Landing & Reference Pages
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote? — Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
- Civil Rights Movement History 1951-1968
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Freedom Movement Photo Album
Individual Pages & Documents
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- 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 July:
SNCC 50th #18 ~ Ella Baker's Roots: Give People Light..., Rev. William Barber, Tim Tyson, Carolyn Brockington, Bernice Johnson Reagon.81min.
SNCC 50th #19 ~ Depictions of the Movement in Popular Culture, many participants. 95min.
SNCC 50th #20 ~ Black Power Black Education and Pan Africanism, Courtland Cox, Geri Augusto, Gregory Carr, Sylvia Hill, Howard Moore. 90min.
SNCC 50th #21 ~ The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Lawrence Guyot, Michael Thelwell, Armand Derfner, MacArthur Cotton. 96min.
SNCC 50th #22 ~ Women Leaders and Organizers–You Can Do This, Frances Beal, Mary King, Cynthia Fleming, Doris Derby, Maria Varela, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan. 97min.
SNCC 50th #23 ~ The Black Church and Black Struggle, Rev. Bernard Lafayette, Rev. Nelson Johnson, Rev. David Forbes. 90min.
Barbara Allen. 1964 sit-in arrest, Easter invasion, Florida Spring Project, police violence. 29min.
Willie Bolden, SCLC. St. Augustine, FL. Describes rallies, marches, KKK confrontations and assault on Andrew Young. 27min.
Shed Dawson. St. Augustine, FL. Wade-ins, police brutality and Civil Rights Act of 1964. 23min.
Audrey Nell Edwards. St. Augustine Four, Woolworth's sit-in, reform school, night marches, and Martin Luther King. 2009. 29min.
Maude Jackson. St. Augustine, FL. Marches, clashes with the KKK, mass arrests, police brutality, arrest of Mary Peabody, and Civil Rights Act of 1964. 9min.
Malcolm Peabody. St. Augustine, FL. Arrest of his mother Mary Peabody, marches, clashes with the KKK, mass arrests, police brutality. 2013. 40min.
JoeAnn Anderson Ulmer. St. Augustine Four, picketing, sit-ins, visits of Jackie Robinson and Dr. King. 18min.
Janie Price, Bombing, Civil Rights Act, night march, shooting William Kinard. 2022. 15min.
Audrey Willis. Attempted Integration of Church, sit-in, night March, police dogs. 2022. 12min.
Courtland Cox Interview, 2006. Nonviolent Action Group, Howard University, SNCC Coordinating Council & Executive Committee, March on Washington, Freedom Summer, Lowndes County AL, War Crimes Tribunal, SNCC Legacy Project. 119min.
Frank Figgers Interview, 2005. Tougaloo College, Jackson Human Rights Project, Georgetown & Black and Proud Liberation School. Black and Proud Elementary School. 93min.
1965 Dear Friend, letter from SNCC re MFDP's Congressional Challenge. SNCC Communications Dept. February 2 1965 1965 Reapportionment of Mississippi re congressional district reapportionment lawsuit. Unsigned MFDP. Undated (post 10/15/65) 1965 Information Addresses Etc. of Resource People, Unsigned, MFDP Fourth District office. 1965 1966 Liberty House sales catalog, Jesse Morris, Poor Peoples Corporation. 2/16/66 1966 3-1/2 Cents A Day For Justice, fund appeal. Unsigned, SNCC. 2/16/66 1966 Tent Cities. Unsigned, SNCC. 3/18/66 1966 Court victory in Sunflower County municiple elections, Unsigned, MFDP. 3/11/66 WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC November 1, 1963. Hattiesburg, Jackson, Oxford MS, Danvile VA, Selma AL.
SNCC November 1, 1963. John Lewis harrased and arrested.
SNCC November 1, 1963. Jackson, Greenville, Belzoni MS & other check-ins.
SNCC November 2, 1963. Arrests in Greenwood.
SNCC November 5, 1963. MS election turn-out.
SNCC November 5, 1963. Election turn-out AR & MS.
SNCC November 5, 1963. Bob Moses MS election turn-out, Selma & Dannville checkin.
SNCC November 6, 1963. Election turn-out & voter registration reports MS, AR, Selma Al.
SNCC November 6, 1963. Vote-count & misc.
SNCC November 7, 1963. Greenwood MS arrests and convictions of Dick Frey and Jane Stembridge.
SNCC November 7, 1963. Willie (Wazir) Peacock re Frey & Stembridge.
SNCC November 8, 1963. Danville VA (Avon Rollins), Greenwood MS (Jane Stembridge), Tuscaloosa AL, Jacson MS.
SNCC November 8, 1963. Greenwood MS re Frey beating & Willie James Earl arrest.
Southern Regional Council (SRC) documents, publications, & articles.
1949 Pattern of Violence Unsigned SRC. March 1949 1949 The Irwinton Story, re lynching in Wilkinson County Georgia. Unsigned SRC. July 1949 1949 Race in the News, re media coverage or race-related news. September 1949 Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
10/27/62 Faith Holsaert? Arrest report, Bronwood, Terrell Co. GA, Chico Neblett, Jack Chatfield, Faith Holsaert(?) Larry Rubin(?) 12/64 Bill Kopit, COFO Memo re COFO legal cases, MS. Undated (probably December 1964) 12/64 Warner Buxton, CORE Clarke County Project Report, MS. Undated (probably December 1964) 12/01/64 Mel Zuck, AFSC Memo to Lois Chaffee, COFO, re peace education in MS 12/01/64 Sandra(?) Adicks(?) Letter to Lois Chaffee, COFO, re returning to work in MS & future plans 12/01/64 Lois Chaffee, COFO Memo to Marvin Rich, CORE, re community centers, MS 12/02/64 Lois Chaffee, COFO Letter to Henry and Sue, re insurance problems, MS 12/02/64 Charley Horowitz, COFO Minimun Needs of the COFO Communications Staff in Jackson, MS 12/03/64 Lois Chaffee, COFO Memo to Idessa Johnson, re subsistance and funding, MS 64? 65? Mary Brumder, COFO Memo on COFO problems & future, MS. Undated (probably late 1964 or early 1965)
Ellie Dahmer Oral History Interview, by Emilye Crosby (SOHP). 2015 MS. 57pages Vernon Dahmer Jr. Oral History Interview, by Emilye Crosby (SOHP). 2015 MS. 60pages Leesco Guster Oral History Interview, by Emilye Crosby (SOHP). 2015 MS. 39pages James Kates Interview, in Natchez MS July 24, 1965, by KZSU Project South (Institute of American History, Stanford University). James & Carolyn Miller Oral History Interview, by Emilye Crosby (SOHP). 2015 MS. 86pages
From Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture Charlie Cobb
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
No new memories or tributes added this month
SNCC 50th #18 ~ Ella Baker's Roots: Give People Light... SNCC 50th #20 ~ Black Power Black Education and Pan Africanism SNCC 50th #21 ~ The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party SNCC 50th #22 ~ Women Leaders and Organizers–You Can Do This SNCC 50th #23 ~ The Black Church and Black Struggle
No new answers added this month.
No new poems added this month.
Standing, by Ernest McMillan. August, 2023.
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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