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In November, we added a collection of Featured Remembrances to our In Memory section. This new collection, written by Movement veterans, presents some of the richest and most powerful tributes to beloved brothers and sisters whose presence no longer grace us.
Last month, we also culled and updated our Freedom Movement Web Links page by updating or deleting dead and invalid links.
As of December 1st, our online archive contains 9650 searchable pages, documents, and images, plus 281 videos in our Vimeo video channel. Google reports that out on the global internet here are 17,434 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.
SNCC Panel at Zinn Book Fair December 3, San Francisco. Bay Area SNCC organizers in conversation with young organizers from SF Rising. Phil Hutchings, Daphne Muse, and Mike Miller will discuss how their time in SNCC influenced their subsequent years of activism in the Bay Area. Howard Zinn Book Fair. December 3, 10:30am. City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus, 106 Bartlett St, San Francisco. Facebook page. Zinn Book Fair schedule.
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.
Now Available: Paperback edition of This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight by Maria Gitin. Combining memoir with oral history, creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965 and the community-based activism of Wilcox County Alabama county that illustrates the heart of the civil rights movement.
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.
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 November:
Nashville Student Movement, 1960s Sit-ins, Nashville TN. Interviews with: Gloria McKissack, Mathew Walker Jr. By Wyatt Williams and Dustin Chambers. By Kate Medley and Mimi Schiffman. 8min.
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.
60th-23 Controlling Local, State and Federal Budgets, Politicians and budgets: Kwame Brown, Elijah Rogers, Carol Thompson Cole. 53min.
60th-24 A Salute to Past and Upcoming Generations, Young organizers, current activists, immediate and future challenges: Courtland Cox, Dejuana Thompson. 44min.
SNCC Digital Gateway, telling SNCC's history, Geri Augusto, Judy Richardson, Emilye Crosby and Hasan Kwame Jeffries. 42min.
Esther M.A. Terry, by Joseph Mosnier, re 1960 Greensboro Woolworth's sit-in. 2011. 96min
Tom Gardner, SSOC, Virginia. Interviewed by Bruce Watson. University of Rhode Island Multicultural Center, 2014. 39min.
Molly Lynn Watt, Highlander Center, TN. Interviewed by University of Rhode Island Multicultural Center, 2014. 37min.
Dorothy Cotton in conversation with Andrew Young, re Citizenship Schools, assault on Young during a night march, the brutally attacked wade-in. 36min.
Errol Jones, re arrest of Mary Peabody, Assault on Andrew Young, marches and rallies, SCM and SCLC projects. 34min.
Cynthia & Fletcher Anderson, Oral History Interview by Joseph Mosnier re Bogalusa LA, Deacons of Defense and Justice, Bogalusa Voters League, job discrimination. 2011. 83min.
John Churchville, by Joseph Mosnier re SNCC, Americus GA & MS, Freedom Library, Black People's Unity Movement PA. 2011. 153min
Jamila Jones, interviewd by Joseph Mosnier, re Freedom Riders, Highlander Folk Center, "We Shall Overcome." 2011. 50min
1941 The Washington Bureau of the NAACP, proposal(?). Unsigned (Thurgood Marshall?). Undated (assumed 1941) 1964 Letter to Congressman Whitten by Julian Bond, demanding investigation of harrassment arrest of SNCC workers George Green and Julius (Mendy?) Samstein in Ruleville MS. 3/21/64. 1964? Convention, Madison County MS. Unsigned CORE or COFO? Undated (probably 1963-1966) 1964 Resolution, Beat 3, Madison County Convention MS. Unsigned CORE or COFO? Undated (probably July 25, 1964) 1964 Madison County Movement leadership structure. Unsigned, CORE/COFO/MFDP. Undated. Presumed to be outcome of July 25th convention. 1964? Madison County Delegates from Ridley Hill (handwritten). Unsigned. Undated (possibly July 25, 1964 convention) 1964 Mississippi Freedom Democrats Report on the 1964 Democratic National Convention, day-by-day chronology. August 29 1964. 1964 Phone report on Convention Challenge delivered to rally in Jackson MS Aaron Henry, MFDP. August 29 1964 1964 Freedom Registration Report (MFDP registrations, not legal voter registrations). Unsigned MFDP. September 1, 1964 1965 Reports: The Challenge, Commission on Religion & Race, NCC. 1965. 16-page pamphlet about Mississippi, Democratic Convention challenge, and MFDP Congressional Challenge. 1966? Madison County picket line sign-in sheet (handwritten). Unsigned. Undated (possibly June of 1966) Clarke County MS Reports 64? 65? List of Towns and Citys in Clarke County. Unsigned, undated. 64? 65? Budget, Clarke County, MS. Unsigned, undated. 64? 65? Workshop registrants, voter registration? Clarke County, MS. Unsigned, undated. (Handwritten) 64? 65? Organizing contact list, Clarke County, MS. Unsigned, undated. 64? 65? Voters? Clarke County, MS. Unsigned, undated. 11/15/64 Clarke County Executive Committee. Unsigned 1964 Clarke County Project Report. Warner Buxton, CORE. December 1964 WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
COFO, June 20, 1964, Jackson, Nashville, Oxford OH, Springfield MA.
COFO, June 21, 1964 Neshoba Co & Meridian, Chaney-Schwerner-Goodman missing, initial follow up.
COFO, June 21, 1964 Arrival of first busses with summer volunteers, car confusion, SNCC worker in Natchez escaped hostile whites.
SNCC? August 16, 1964 Albany GA shooting, Thomasville GA harassment, Jackson MS shooting & cross burning
COFO? August 18, 1964 McComb MS freedom day rally and harassment, Greenwood MS man killed, FST in Indianola MS, Jackson MS arrest
SNCC? August 19, 1964 Albany GA arrests, McComb/Magnolia MS threats and arrests.
Southern Regional Council (SRC) documents, publications, & articles.
7/50 Professional Groups Drop Race, unsigned New South, July 1950. Continued segregation (and some slow progress) in medical, legal, and education professional associations. 4/53 A Slow Train to Integration, unsigned New South. Continued segregation of inter-state travlers despite ICC ruling. 6/53 A South of Union and Freedom, unsigned Atlanta Constitution, June 1953. Self-congratulatory assessment of racial progress. 11/53 Negroes Gain in Family Income, unsigned New South, November 1953. Urban Negroes advance, rural Negroes lag, but both are far behind whites. Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
11/60 SCLC Caberet for Freedom, Southern Freedom Struggle benefit flyer, Village Gate, NYC. Unsigned 2/1/63 SNCC A Salute to Southern Students, Carnegie Hall benefit flyer. Unsigned SNCC 11/23/63 SNCC All Star Concert, Carnegie Hall benefit flyer. Unsigned SNCC 2/14/64 Many Jerico-Jim Crow, Langstan Hughes, benefit performance for CORE, NAACP, SNCC. NYC. 11/14/64 SNCC Jerico-Jim Crow, Langstan Hughes, benefit performance for SNCC & WILPF. Philadelphia PA 10/7/65 FoS Letter from William Kunstler to Madison FoS re SISS hearing on "Communist Youth Program" 11/5/65 FoS Personal note to Alicia Kaplow, William Kunstler
Students for a Democratic Society Documents 10/63? Students and Economic Action, Carl Whitman, SDS. Undated, probably October 1963 (9 pages) 12/63 Chester PA Jobs, Community Organizing in the Other America, by SDS, Committee For Freedom Now of Chester, Swarthmore Political Action Club. (12 pages) 12/63? Liberals and Reality, Sumner Rosen, SDS/Politial Action for Peace (PAX). Undated (possibly December 1963) (7 pages) 1964? University Reform, Shelley Blum, SDS. Undated (possibly 1964) (5 pages) 65? 66? The Other California, support flyer National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) grape strike, Los Angeles SDS. Undated (probably late 1965 or early 1966) 1966? A Movement of Many Voices ..., Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP) recruitment pamphlet, Tom Hayden, SDS. Undated (possibly 1966) (31 pages) SF State BSU/TWLF-Led Student & Faculty Strike (1968-1969)
Strike, Why We Strike. TWLF. Undated (probably January 1969). 10pages
Who Controls Our College?, The Trustees Are Coming Down on us. Issued by MAX, Experimental College, Community Services Institute, Open Process. Undated. 3pages.
Letter writing to Trustees & legislators flyer. Unsigned. Undated. 3pages
Resolution, demanding rehiring of professors Martinez, Fitzgerald, and Hare. Third World Liberation Front (Latin American Students Assoc, Mexican American Students Assoc, Black Students Union, Philipino American Organizing Committee). March 5, 1968 1page.
1/7/63 Rochelle Haimen(?) Letter to Faith Holsaert, SNCC, re responses and student activism. 1/11/63 Faith Holsaert, SNCC Dear Howard and Clarice, re federal voting rights suites in Terrell County Georgia 1/14/63 Illegible in NYC Letter to Faith Holsaert, SNCC re general situation 1/15/63 Anne Braden, SCEF Letter to Faith Holsaert, SNCC re Wiggins case in Georgia 1/19/63 Dorie Ladner, SNCC Note to Faith Holsaert, SNCC re SNCC work & transfer to Terrel County Georgia 1/19/63 Illegible in NYC Letter to Faith Holsaert, SNCC re apathy and the struggle for democracy in Georgia 12/63 Faith Holsaert, SNCC Dear Betsy & Paul, re Albany and Terrell County Georgia 2/24/64 Martha Jones Report Camden, Mississipi, rural organizing and contact list 6/29/64 Unsigned CORE/COFO Canton Mississippi preparations for Freedom Summer 6/64 Unsigned, CORE/COFO Outline of Committee Work, Madison County Movement
Herman Carter Interview of CORE SSOC member in Baton Rouge LA by #KZSU Project South (Stanford University), Summer 1965. Dave Dennis Interview of CORE leader by #KZSU Project South (Stanford University), Summer 1965. Mary Jenkins Oral history interview, by Will Griffin, SOHP. Re the Albany Movement. Georgia. 2013. Jamila Jones Oral History Interview by Joseph Mosnier, re Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Riders, Highlander Folk Center, "We Shall Overcome" song. 2011. Esther M.A. Terry Oral History Interview by Joseph Mosnierre re Greensboro Woolworth's sit-in, Bennet College, & more. 2011
Death Knell for the Voting Rights Act ~ Yesterday & Tomorrow Bruce Hartford UNO: Birth of a University; Rebirth of a City Raphael Cassimere, Jr.
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
SNCC 60th Conference #23 ~ Controlling Local, State and Federal Budgets
SNCC 60th Conference #24 ~ A Salute to Past and Upcoming Generations
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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