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According to Google, there were 19,118 visits to the CRMA website during October for an average of 617 per day. Roughly 12% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 500 to 800 per day.
As of November 1st, our online archive contains 9584 searchable pages, documents, and images, plus 271 videos in our Vimeo video channel. Google reports that out on the global internet here are 17,198 backlinks to our CRMA site, sections, and pages by organizations and people using us as an information resource.
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: No Ordinary Joe: Lesson From a Life of Community Organizing for Social Change, by Jerome Christensen. Wordshop at Fourth & Sioux, 2023. Life of Civil Rights Movement activist and community organizer Joe Morse.
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 November were:
Section Contents, Landing & Reference Pages
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote? — Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Civil Rights Movement History 1951-1968
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
Individual Pages & Documents
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
- Poems of Langston Hughes
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
(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 October:
Interview with Lucious Edwards, by Daugherty & Smith, re Virginia Student Civil Rights Committee (VSCRC), 2016. 75min.
Interview with Sen. Henry L. Marsh, III., re "Massive Resistance", politics in Richmond, VA. 2003. 29min.
Marilyn Luper Hildreth. (NAACP) Youth Council, Oklahoma City, sit-ins, Clara Luper (mother), 2011.
Mildred Bond Roxborough, NAACP field worker and leader interviewed by Julian Bond. 2010. 85min.
Richard Barry Sobol (with Anne Sobol), Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC), Deacons for Defense and Justice, Bogalusa, LA. 2011. 116min.
Myrtle Gonza Glascoe, CORE, SNCC, West Point, Mississippi, Phillips County, Arkansas, Avery Research Center. 2010. 94min.
James Oscar Jones, Director SNCC Arkansas project. 2011. 127min.
Calvin Luper, NAACP Youth Council, Oklahoma City, sit-ins, Clara Luper (mother). 2011. 24min.
Durhams NC's "Royal Seven", sit-in at Royal Ice Cream in 1957. With Rev. Douglas E. Moore and Virginia Lee Williams. By Jesse Paddock. 9min.
Friendship 9, Rock Hill SC, nine students from Friendship College use a "Jail, No Bail" strategy to desegregate lunch counters in 1961. By FredericK Taylor and Ellen Barnard. 8min.
Dizzyland Cafe Sit-In, Cambridge MD, and the role of sit-ins in 1963. By Nick and Kelsey Michaels. 7min.
1941 Staighten Up - And Come to the March on Washington Movement. Mobilization flyer. Unsigned. Undated 1941. 1941 Why Should We March? Flyer, 1941 March on Washington Movement. Unsigned (presumable MoWM committee). Undated 1941 (possibly May or June) 1941 Call to Negro America, Negro March on Washington for Jobs in National Defense. Unsigned MoWM. Undated (possibly June, 1941) 1963 Selected Data on Social and Economic Characteristics of the Southern States, Human Relations Special Project, National Student Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America, (YWCA). April 1963 1963 Posters of the Southern Freedom Movement, Five Posters From Photographs by Danny Lyon.. Unsigned SNCC. Undated (probably latter half of 1963). Advertising flyer. 1964 SNCC fund appeal and staff sponsorship request, Barbara Jones, SNCC. Undated (probably October or November 1964). 1964 Dear Friend program outline for campus Friends of SNCC (FoS) groups. Jan Else, SNCC. 10/23/64 1964 SNFC December 1964 Newsletter, Unsigned, Student Nonviolent Freedom Committee (SNFC), Carbondale IL. November 1964 1964 Incident Summary Dec 1st - Dec 9th unsigned SNCC. 12/9/64 64? 65? Alternate Alabama voter registration test, undated (possibly 1964 or early 1965). Possibly created and briefly used by one or more Alabama counties to evade federal court voting-rights rulings. 1965 Recent Acts of Violence, unsigned SNCC. Undated (probably August or September, 1965) 1966 SNCC Does Not Wish to Become a New Version of the White Man's Burden reprint of article from I.F. Stone's Weekly. Re media reaction to election of Stokely Carmichael's election to replace John Lewis as SNCC chair. 1969 Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education proposal and funding request by Sherrod, Anderson, McClary. June 1969 WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC December 5, 1963. update on status of Aaron Henry libel suit.
SNCC December 5, 1963. Birmingham, AL, miscellaneous report.
SNCC December 5, 1963. James Jones, Greenwood MS, updates on Winona hearing, Misc: Pine Bluff AR, Danville VA, Selma AL, etc.
SNCC December 7, 1963. Worth Long, Selma AL, court hearing on voter registration discrimination, Misc: Columbus MS, Cambridge MA, Greenwood MS, etc.
SNCC December 9, 1963. John Ball, Tchula MS, people petition for ending racial discrimination signs, Misc: Selma AL.
SNCC December 9, 1963. Dick Frey, Greenwood MS, prisioner Roosevelt Knox testified at brutality trial in Oxford.
SNCC December 10, 1963. J.V. Henry, Danville VA, report on sit-in arrests and demonstrations.
SNCC December 10, 1963. Jesse Harris, Jackson MS, Lois Chafed arrested for the second time.
SNCC December 10, 1963. Worth Long, Selma AL, updates on voter registration. Misc: Jackson MS, Pine Bluff AR, Raleigh NC, etc.
SNCC December 11, 1963. Bill Hansen, Pine Bluff, attempt to hold hearings in Helena AR.
SNCC December 12, 1963. Jane Stembridge & James Jones, Greenwood MS, FBI reported on Roosevelt Knox case, Misc: Greenville MS, Jackson MS, Raleigh NC, etc.
SNCC December 13, 1963. Avon Rollins, Danville VA, updates on arrests and trials, Misc: Columbus MS, Pittsburg PA, Pine Bluff AR, etc.
SNCC December 13, 1963. Bill Hansen, Helena AR, report on trial of John Bradford and Bruce Jordan.
SNCC December 16, 1963. Call summaries: Greenwood MS, Pine Bluff AR, Greenville MS, etc.
Southern Regional Council (SRC) documents, publications, & articles.
Hard Times for The Klan unsigned, New South, April 1952.Blight, Bigotry, and Bombs distrust, fear, and violence are the price of slum housing. Harold C. Fleming, New South, July 1952.
A Look at FEPC pros and cons of a national fair employment commission and law. New South, reprint from Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, September 1952
Race and Suffrage Today, voter apathy and official evasion are continuing problems. Unsigned, New South, January, 1953.
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
Students for a Democratic Society Documents 62? '63? SDS Research and Education in Community Action Projects, Paul Potter, SDS. Undated, probably 1962 or 1963. (10 pages) 1963 SDS America and the New Era, unsigned SDS. Undated probably mid-1963. (23 pages) 6/63 SDS The Intellectual As an Agent of Social Change, Paul Potter speech to SDS convention. June 1963. (8 pages) Fall '68 SDS Through the Looking Glass, a Radical Guide to Stanford. Stanford SDS (42 pages) Fall '68 SDS What is SDS?, flyer. San Francisco State College SDS Fall '68 SDS Elections? ... A Better Answer, San Francisco State College SDS SF State BSU/TWLF-Led Student & Faculty Strike (1968-1969)
To Interested Colleagues and Students, chronology of the strike up to December 2nd. Kai-yu Hsu, World Literature Department. 6pages
The Chancellor's Recent Violation of Academic Due Process, statements, summaries, and documents. Unsigned faculty Ad Hoc Committee. November. (18 documents)
Resolutions, newsletters & bulletins related to SFSC strike, AFT Local 1362, San Jose State College. Nov-Dec 1968 (8 documents)
Strike flyers, bulletins, & statements, AFT Local 1352, San Francisco State College. December 1968. (10 documents)
Strike flyers, bulletins, & statements, AFT Local 1352, San Francisco State College. January 1969. (36 documents)
Weekly News, AFT Local 1928 San Francisco State College. Feb-Mar 1969. (4 documents 20 pages)
11/7/62 Jack Chatfield, SNCC Report re Southwest Georgia Voter Registration Project 11/18/62 Unsigned, SNCC? Letter about joining the movement in SW Georgia 12/1/62 Jonh O'Neal, SNCC Weekly report re work in SW Georgia 1/8/63 Faith Holsaert, SNCC Letter to friends re work in SW Georgia 2/5/64 Clifford Vaughs, SNCC Letter to Burke Marshal DoJ, re law enforcement intimidation against voter registration in Hattiesburg MS 4/2/65 Unsigned, COFO/CORE Staff discussions memo, Canton, MS 4/27/65 Augustine C— Thank you note for financial assistance (handwritten) 4/30/65 Janell Glass, COFO? Dear Lucy, letter to Lucy Montgomery describing Movement hardships in MS and requesting money for food
Raphael Cassimere A Civil Rights Activist Revisits the Sixties Movement at UNO, 2003. Lucious Edwards Interview by Daugherty & Smith re Virginia Student Civil Rights Committee (VSCRC). 2016. 19-pages Tom Gardner Interview by Daugherty & Smith re Richmond, Virginia, Crusade for Voters, Massive Resistance, etc. 2003. 34-pages Thomas Hardy Interview by Ronald E. Carrington re Surrey County Virginia movement & Surrey Assembly. 2003. 31-pages Rev. Curtis Harris Interview by Ronald E. Carrington re Virginia SCLC, civil disobedience. 2003. 24-pages Roger Hickey Interview by Daugherty & Smith re Virginia Student Civil Rights Committee (VSCRC). 2015. 11-pages Marilyn Hildreth Interview by Joseph Mosnier, re NAACP Youth Council, Oklahoma City, sit-ins, Clara Luper (mother). 2011. 16pages; Calvin Luper Interview by Joseph Mosnier, re NAACP Youth Council, Oklahoma City, sit-ins, Clara Luper (mother). 2011. 14page Henry Marsh Interview re "Massive Resistance" politics in Richmond, VA. 2003 Nan Grogan Orrock Interview by Daugherty & Smith re Virginia Student Civil Rights Committee (VSCRC). 2015. 18-pages Mildred Roxborough Oral History Interview by Julian Bond re National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). 2010. 75pages Richard Sobol Interview by Joseph Mosnier re Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC) and Bogalusa LA. 2011. 59pages Steven Wise Interview by Daugherty & Smith re Virginia Student Civil Rights Committee (VSCRC). 2015. 13-pages Dr. W. Ferguson Reid Interview by Ronald E. Carrington re Richmond, Virginia, Crusade for Voters, Massive Resistance,. 2003. 34-pages Hosea Williams, SCLC Interview of SCLC leader about SCLC and SCOPE by #KZSU Project South (Stanford University), Summer 1965.
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
No new memories or tributes added this month
No new answers added this month.
No new poems added this month.
Freedom Movement Art, Special Collections
No Ordinary Joe: Lesson From a Life of Community Organizing for Social Change, by Jerome Christensen. Wordshop at Fourth & Sioux, September 2023. Life of Civil Rights Movement activist and community organizer Joe Morse.
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.
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 Alabama. 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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