According to Google, there were 22,788 visits to the CRMA website during January of this year for an average of 735 per day. This is approximately 15% less than January of last year.
Even since 2020, our traffic has been slowly declining. There are multiple factors that might account for that decline, but it is self-evident that since two-thirds of our visitors are students (grade school and college) a good portion of it must be attributed to the vicious and unrelenting war being waged by Republicans and MAGAites against teachers, librarians, schools, and colleges who dare stand against racism and educate around issues of racial justice.
Roughly 15% of our visitors came from outside the U.S.
As of February 1st, our online archive contains 9760 searchable pages, documents, and images, plus 308 videos in our Vimeo video channel. Google reports that out on the global internet here are 19,373 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 1999, it has been almost entirely funded by personal donations from Freedom Movement activists and individual supporters. We carry on this work with almost zero institutional support, foundation grants, or philanthropic contributions. 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 preserves and extends 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 equality today.
SNCC Digital Gateway (SDG). A joint project of SLP and Duke University, SDG tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the 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.
SCOPE 50. Preserving Civil Rights and the Story of Voting. Website of SCLC/SCOPE project activists.
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.
SNCC: Art & Culture in the Movement online livestream round table.
SNCC & Grassroots Organizing Discussion Series. Feb-May (online and in-Person events). Various locations. SNCC Legacy Project (SLP).
Freedom Summer 60th Commemoration programs and initiatives.
Now Available: Love Letter from Pig: My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer, by Julie Kabat. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Based on primary-source materials, the personal story of volunteer Luke Kabat and the Meridian MS (Lauderdale Co.) project.
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-ten, most-visited sections and individual pages in January were:
Sections, Landing & Reference Pages
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote?—Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Site Search: Civil Rights Movement Archive
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Montogmery Bus Boycott & Rosa Parks Resources
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- Roll Call of Freedom Movement Veterans
- Civil Rights Movement History 1951-1968
Individual Pages & Documents
- Photo Album: Freedom Movement Posters
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- CRM History: 1951-1952 (Student Strike Moton High, We Charge Genocide, Murder of the Moores)
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Poems of Langston Hughes
- Photo Album: The Sit-Ins—Off Campus and Into Movement (1960)
- Voter Registration in Alabama Before the Voting Rights Act
- Speech to Anti-War Protest, Dr. Martin Luther King. (April 15, 1967)
(Google does not count how often PDF files are accessed. Since most of our documents are in PDF format, the "Top Ten" 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 January:
SNCC 50th #30 ~ The Young Peoples Project ~ The Young Peoples Project. Omo Moses, Albert Sykes, Various Activists. 88min.
SNCC 50th #31 ~ The Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Benetta Standly, Crystal Mattison, Carmen Perez, Carrie Richburg. 91min.
SNCC 50th #32 ~ Actions For A New World, Ash-Lee Henderson, Jonathan Lewis, Djuan Coleon, Ace Washington, Marilyn Shaw. 149min.
Bennett, Breaux, & Jenkins, by Joseph Mosnier. Bogalusa LA movement. 2011. 81min
David Gass, interviewed by Rob Widell. Freedom Summer. 2014. 37min
Freeman Hrabowski, by Joseph Mosnier. Birmingham Movement and church bombing. 2011. 78min
Alfred Moldovan, by Joseph Mosnier. MCHR, Meridian MS, Selma AL, March to Montgomery. 2011. 59min
Dan Lynn Watt, by Rob Widell. Freedom Summer. 2014. 37min
Bernice Harper. St. Augustine FL, Andrew Young, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Wade-in. Night March, Augustine Four. 2023. 41min.
Barbara Vickers. St. Augustine FL, Ku Klux Klan, Manucy's Raiders, NAACP, SCLC, St. Augustine Four, Assault on Andrew Young, Drive-by Shooting, Night March. 2023. 78min.
YouTube Videos of Martin Luther King Speeches. Fourteen of Dr. Kings most famous speeches.
1963 Receipt for $100 donation, Michael Thelwell, SNCC. 12/7/63. 1964 To All Freedom Democrats report on voting rights depositions and Jackson hearing. Theodor Del Poro? 1/31/64. 1964 COFO Meeting Report, unsigned COFO. 7/12/64 1964 COFO Meeting Report, unsigned COFO. 7/15/64 1964 COFO Meeting Notes, unsigned COFO. 7/15/64 1964 Print Shop Order for organizing materials. Mary King, SNCC. August 3, 1964 1964 Andrew Goodman: Mississippi Death Certificate Archie Gray, Mississippi Registrar of Vital Statistics. August 4, 1964 1964 Eulogies Delivered at the Funeral Services of Andrew Goodman August 9, 1964 1964 Press registration MFDP state convention (handwritten). Unsigned SNCC/MFDP. August 6, 1964. 1964 Press contacts in Mississippi who covered the summer project Mary King, SNCC. August 31. 1964 1964 New York SNCC finances. Charlotte Carter, bookkeeper. October 1964 1964 Memo re News Errors in Vicksburg, Mississippi Incident, unsigned SNCC. November 4, 1964 1965 Address by Lawrence Guyot to MFDP statewide meeting. Undated (presumed 1965) 1965 Reports the Challenge, National Council of Churches, Commission on Religion & Race. Undated (probably summer 1965). 16-page pamphlet about the MFDP challenge to the 1964 Democratic Party 1966 We Want Black Power, SNCC. Undated 1966. 12 pages
Stokeley Carmichael Chicago Speech
Why Black Power?1966 Chicago SNCC Black Power Project, application form. Undated 1966 1966 Black Power -- New Imperialist Hoax Unsigned Communist Party (Marxist Leninist). Criticism of Black Power. Undated 1966. Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC) Publications
Rights, Challenging the McCarran Act.
Rights, Meikeljohn & Bill of Rights. Mrs. Eaton, James Baldwin, Anne Braden
Rights, Homage to Alexander Mieklejohn.
Rights, Democracy on Campus, Free Speech Movement, Student Bill of Rights, Political Surveillance on Campus, HUAC
Rights, Report From Alabama. Selma & March to Montgomery and Student Bill of Rights.
Rights, The Draft, Vietnam, the draft, Julian Bond & GA legislature
WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC January 26, 1964. Greenvile (Charlie Cobb), Jackson (Emma Bell).
SNCC January 26, 1964. Jackson (Claude Weaver), Washington (Stokely).
SNCC January 26, 1964. Canton list of those arrested for passing out leaflets.
SNCC January 27, 1964. Avon (Rollins?) arrested in Danville VA.
SNCC January 27, 1964. Guyot arrested in Hattiesburg, Atlanta GA arrests and police brutality re Leb's, McComb MS mass cross-burnings in Pike Co.
SNCC January 27, 1964. Hattiesburg voter registration logistics (Sandy Leigh), Raleigh NC campus actiity (John Love), trials in MS (Emma Bell).
SNCC January 27, 1964. Lexington MS voter registration (Mendy Samstein), Jackson & Holmes Co voter registration.
SNCC January 27, 1964. Raleigh NC Episcopal Church meeting and segregation (J.V. Henry).
SNCC January 27, 1964. Danville VA Avon (Rollins?) arrests and convictions (Mary King).
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
1965 NSM Freedom North, publication of Northern Student Movement (NSM). 10 articles, 20pages. Saul Alinsky, Richard Cloward, Staughton Lynd, Fred Powledge, William Strickland. Undated (presumed 1965, possibly Jan)
3/20/63 McMillen & Patterson Invitation to Amzie Moore Laymen Movement to the Educational Convention of the State of Mississippi 1/27/64 Jack McKart Note to Amzie Moore, re visit to Cleveland MS (handwritten) 10/27/64 Howard Zinn Dear Art, note from Howard Zinn re MFDP convention challenge report (handwritten) New Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
July Freedom School Plans, Pleasant Green (Madison Co.). Bob Gilman, JoAnn Ooiman 7/6 Communications and Transportation, memo to George Raymond (CORE) from Bara Leiber and Ruth Steward. 7/24 Dear George, note to George Raymond (CORE) from Natalie Tompkins re request from Rankin Co.
Dorothy Dawson Burlage Interview, about SDS, SNCC, SSOC, NSA by Gretchen Howard. 35 pages. David Gass Interview by Rob Widell re Freedom Summer, freedom schools, and Deacons for Defense. 2014. 11 pages Ruth Howard Chambers Interview about SNCC, by Gretchen Howard. 41 pages. David Gass Interview by Rob Widell re Freedom Summer, freedom schools, and Deacons for Defense. 2014. 11 pages Casey Hayden Interview about SNCC, by Gretchen Howard. 22 pages. King Hollands Oral history interview by Larry Patterson, Nashville Public Library. School desegregation, sit-in movement, etc. 49 pages. (Nashville, TN) Freeman Hrabowski Oral History Interview by Joseph Mosnier re the movement in Birmingham. 2011. 45 pages Marilyn Lowen Interview, about the Freedom Movement. By Gretchen Howard. 28 pages. Penny Patch Interview about SNCC, by Gretchen Howard. 27 pages. Rodney Powell Interview, by K. G. Bennett, Nashville Public Library. Nashville Student Movement, Freedom Rides, Peace Corps, etc. 13 pages. Dan Lynn Watt Interview by Rob Widell re movement in Cambridge MD and Fayette Co. TN. 2014. 13 pages
1965 Three articles on the civil rights movement. Unsigned Monthly Review. July-August, 1965.
Mobilization at the Grassroots
Black and White Together?
The Unanswered Questions
Unsung Heroes & Sheroes of the Movement in New Orleans Raphael Cassimere New Collection: What the Civil Rights Movement Taught Us Lessons Learned in the Southern Freedom Movement Chude Allen The Freedom Movement Changed So Many Lives Heather Booth An Introduction to John O'Neal's Work and SNCC Charlie Cobb Mr. Say Ain't Nothing, Mr. Do's the Man (five short videos) Courtland Cox What I Learned from the Freedom Movement Fatima Cortez Mass Movements & Social Revolution Bruce Hartford Lessons Learned Marion Kwan Moving From Freedom to Black Power and Beyond Jennifer Lawson Bob Moses: Neither Victim Nor Executioner Mike Miller SNCC Changed Me... Forever Judy Richardson What I Learned from the Freedom Movement Karen Haberman Trusty
Charles Butts - MFP, 1961-64, MS, TN
John Hartman - NAACP, SNCC, 1961-1965, NC AL MD
William (Bill) Rau - SCLC, 1965-1966, GA AL
No new memories or tributes added this month
No new answers added this month.
No new poems added this month.
Love Letter from Pig: My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer, by Julie Kabat. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Based on primary-source materials, the personal story of volunteer Luke Kabat and the Meridian MS (Lauderdale Co.) project.
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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