According to Google, there were 12,296 visits to the CRMA website during July for an average of 397 per day. This low number reflects our traditional summer-doldrums when most U.S. schools are out of session. It is approximately 8% higher than July of last year. Roughly 22% of our visitors came from outside the U.S.
Overall, ever since 2020, our number of visits by American users has been declining, while international traffic has held steady or perhaps slightly increased. We believe that much of this long-term decline stems from the vicious and unrelenting attacks being waged by Republicans and MAGAites against teachers, librarians, principals, school boards, and universities who dare stand against racism and educate around issues of racial justice. Since two-thirds of our visitors are students (grade school and college), with schools out of session for the summer the proportion of international users is higher than during the school year and the effects of MAGA intimidation less evident.
As of August 1st, our online archive contains 10,205 searchable pages, documents, images, and recordings, plus 374 videos in our Vimeo video channel. Google reports that out on the global internet there are 31,469 backlinks to our site by people, organizations, and schools using us as an information resource.
Ever since we established the CRMA (formerly known as "CRMVet") in 1999, it has been almost entirely funded by personal donations from Freedom Movement veterans 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 donate to keep us alive and growing. You can donate via check, your bank's Bill Pay service, or PayPal. Thank you for anything you are able to contribute.
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.
Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family, by Faith Holsaert. Memoir of NYC childhood, SNCC in Southwest Georgia, and raising her own children in the coalfields of West Virginia.
Marching in Montgomery, by John J. Hartman. IPBooks. 2025. First-hand account by a participant of the March 1965 voting rights protests in Montgomery Alabama in support of the movement in Selma AL.
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 July were:
Sections, Landing & Reference Pages
- Site Search: Civil Rights Movement Archive
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote?—Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- Documents From the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
- Civil Rights Movement History 1950-1970
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Civil Rights Movement Web Links
- About the Civil Rights Movement Archive
Individual Pages & Documents
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Photo Album: The Children's Crusade: Birmingham (1963)
- Poem: Ain't I A Woman? Sojourner Truth
- Background: Northern Defacto School Segregation, Bruce Hartford.
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- Poems of Langston Hughes
- Photo Album: The Sit-Ins—Off Campus and Into Movement (1960)
- CRM History: Mississippi Freedom Summer (1964)
(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 July:
Charles Sherrod, Eyes on the Prize interview by Blackside. Albany GA Movement, SNCC. 33min. 2015.
James Peck, Eyes on the Prize interview by Blackside. CORE, Freedom Rides. 1979. 22min.
Cleveland Sellers, Eyes on the Prize interview by Blackside. SNCC, NAG, March on Washington, Dr. King, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer, MDFP, NAACP. 1988. 54min.
Diane Nash, Eyes on the Prize interview by Blackside. Sit-ins, Nashville Student Movement, SNCC, Freedom Rides, leader, organizer, strategist, activist . 1985. 71min.
Andrew Young, SCOPE, Citizenship Education Schools, SCLC, SNCC, later life. 54min.
Andrew Marrisett, SCLC, AFSC, 1963-78, AL, GA, TX, NC, SC. 2020. 29min.
Where Do We go From Here? SCOPE 50th anniversary discussion, 2015. 32min.
Tribute to Jimmie Lee Jackson, murdered by Alabama State Trooper, poem Ode to Jimmie Lee by Jim "Strider" Benston. SCOPE 50th Anniversary. 6min.
Hosea Williams III Exhibit, SCOPE 50th Anniversary. 3min. (No sound)
Tribute to Deceased; Libations, John Reynolds, Dr. Barbara Williams Emerson. SCOPE 50th Anniversary. 16min.
Takeaways from SCLC/SCOPE 50th Reunion, John Reynolds. SCOPE 50th Anniversary. 5min.
1961 CORE's 1961 Holiday Cards, fundraising brochure. Undated (probably 4th quarter, 1961). 1962 CORE Summer Training Programs in Nonviolence, brochure. Interracial action institutes. Undated (possibly 2nd quarter, 1962) ???? Report on Suite for Voting and Political Party Rights. Unsigned. Undated (1963? 1964? 1965?) 1963 CORE Holiday Cards for 1963, fundraising brochure. Undated (probably 4th quarter, 1963). 1964 Mississippi Readies Laws for "Freedom Summer". Unsigned (COFO?). Undated (probably May or June, 1964) 1964 CORE Constitution, Revised 1964 July, 1964 1964 Letter to President of Tuskegee Institute from Judy Richardson re proposed 1965 Black Belt Project. 9/30/64 1964 Working notes, proposed 1965 SNCC Black Belt Project. Unsigned SNCC. Undated (possibly Fall 1964) 1965 U.S. Congress and House Committee on Administration, unsigned. Re MFDP Congressional challenge. 1965 Action Memo: Vote on the seating of the Mississippi Congressional Delegation (the white-only delegation). Unsigned Political Education Project. 1/5/65. 1965 Letter to Tom Hayden re SNCC Residential Freedom School. Judy Richardson. 5/26/65 1965 Letter to John O'Neal re SNCC Residential Freedom School. Judy Richardson. 6/9/65. 1965 Letter to Judy Richardson re SNCC Residential Freedom School. Bryant George, Presb. Board of National Missions. 6/24/65 1965 Note to Judy Richardson and Sharon Jackson re SNCC Residential Freedom School. Silas Norman, SNCC. 7/1/65. Southern Regional Council Publications
1964, Jan The Southern Regional Council 1944-1964 1965, July-Aug Minorities Slow March into the Mainstream; Jewish, Negro, and Human Interest; Vinettes from Bogalusa Application Forms, Questionnaires & Personnel Files
1964 Questionnaire instructions CORE Louisiana summer project. 1964 Joseph Banks, questionnaire 1964 Frank Battiste, information sheet 1964 Fredrick Brooks, questionnaire 1964 Henry Brown, affiliation & job description 1964 Joanne Darken, questionnaire 1964 Preston D(illegible), questionnaire WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC February 14, 1964. Chapel Hill NC, Greenville MS, Canton MS
SNCC February 16, 1964. Natchez MS report, Mendy Samstein.
SNCC February 17, 1964. Pine Pluff AR, Hattiesburg MS, Chapel Hill NC.
SNCC February 18, 1964. Sunflower County report, Charles McLaurin.
SNCC February 18, 1964. Pine Bluff AR.
SNCC February 18, 1964. Hattiesburg MS, Pine Bluff AR.
SNCC February 18, 1964. Report from LeFlore County MS, Charlie Cobb.
SNCC February 19, 1964. Pine Bluff AR, Canton MS, Savannah GA.
SNCC February 20, 1964. Pine Bluff AR, Hattiesburg MS. Protests, arrests, suppression.
SNCC February 21, 1964. Oxford MS, Pine Bluff AR. Violence at 'Ole Miss, jail & bail.
SNCC February 21, 1964. Pine Bluff AR, Hattiesburg MS. Arrests, protests.
SNCC February 21, 1964. Pine Bluff AR. Protests, violence, threats.
SNCC February 22, 1964. Pine Bluff AR. Protests, reaction, Gov. Faubus. Dick Gregory.
SNCC February 22, 1964. SW Georgia, Terrell, Sumter, Dougherty, Lee counties.
SNCC February 22, 1964. SW Georgia (Dawson, Americus, Lee, Albany), Princess Anne MD, Hattiesburg MS.
SNCC February 23, 1964. Oxford & Canton MS, threats & arrests.
SNCC February 24, 1964. Natchez, Greenwood, Hattiesburg MS, Princess Anne MD, violence, protests, sentencing, voter registration.
Vietnam War & Military Draft Documents
4/17/65 A Call to Students, March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam. SDS. 4/17/65 What You Can Do, March Against the Vietnam War. Washington DC. SDS. 4/17/65 Agenda & Petition, March Against the Vietnam War. Washington DC. SDS. 11/27/65 Carl Oglesby Speech, March Against the Vietnam War. Washington DC. SDS. Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
4/56 ECLC Rights, Academic Freedom 4/57 April ECLC Rights, The Un-Americans in Congress 8/60 July-Aug ECLC Jesus as a Free Speech Victim, Trial by Terror 2000 Years Ago, by Clifford Durr 7/22/65 CORE Biggest Demonstration for Civilian Review Board, Newark NJ. Jim Peck, Val Colman. Press release. 8/30/65 CORE CORE Endorses New York City Primary Candidates, New York City. Unsigned press release. 8/30/65 CORE CORE Challenges Grand Jury Finding exonerating police officer in killing of suspect, New York City. Unsigned press release. Students for a Democratic Society Documents
1964 Our Crisis Economy, Ray Brown, SDS. Undated 1964. 1965 SDS -- Or the Draft?, unsigned Los Angeles SDS. Undated (possibly 1965) 65? 66? Report From the San Francisco Regional Office, Tom Goff, SDS. Undated (possibly 1965 or 66) 1965 Organizing the Knowledge Industry, Clark Kissinger, SDS. March 1965. 1965? Students for a Democratic Society! Brochure. Unsigned SDS SF Bay Area. Undated (possibly 1965). 1966 Call for an Examination of Conscience, protest flyer against the "Vietnam Exam." Unsigned SDS. May 1966.
4/14/60 Amzie Moore, RCNL Letter to MS Republican Party, re discrimination and retaliation by U.S. Postal Service. MS. 4/18/60 W.A. Yerger, GOP Note to Amzie Moore rejecting his request for assistance against discrimination., MS 4/18/60 R.L. Drew, RCNL Meeting announcement note, Mound Bayou, MS 4/19/60 Medgar Evers, NAACP Memo to Amzie Moore, re NAACP leadership meeting in Cleveland MS. 5/10/60 Amzie Moore, RCNL Letter to Jim Dombrowski (SCEF), re retaliatory firing of teachers and voting rights. 1965 Bill Edmundson, SDS Note to Bruce Hartford about new SDS chapter in Birmingham, AL. Undated 1965 5/5/65 Lucy Montgomery Letter to Judy Richardson, re Residential Freedom School proposal 11/1/65 Edward Williams Letter to Lucy Montgomery re funds for community center, Rosedale MS (Bolivar Co.) 2/17/66 Karen Whitman, SNCC Note to University of Wisconsin student supporters 5/67 Bruce Hartford, SCLC America in May, political-thoughts addendum enclosed with several letters in May of '67 Fall '67 Josh Gould Whata ya say Bruce?, Letter to Bruce Hartford re organizing G.I. against the Vietnam War 11/67 Lenny, Resistance Note to Bruce Hartford about anti-war and draft resistance in NYC 11/67 Bruce Hartford, SDS Dear Lenny & Co. letter discussing Stop the Draft Week tactics comparing Oakaland to NYC 12/8/67 Josh Gould Dear Bruce, note to Bruce Hartford from jail (handwritten)
J. Charles Jones Oral History Interview, by Debbie Howard, Before Brown Project (UNC). Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, SNCC. 2005. 30pages.
Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer Monica Land (Mrs. Hamer's neice) Remembering McCarthyism Bruce Hartford
Ann Carter - SSOC, 1967-69. TN, NC, LA
No new answers added this month.
No new poems added this month.
No new photos added this month
Marching in Montgomery, by John J. Hartman. IPBooks. 2025. First-hand account by a participant of the March 1965 voting rights protests in Montgomery Alabama in support of the movement in Selma AL.
Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family, by Faith Holsaert. Memoir of NYC childhood, SNCC in Southwest Georgia, and raising her own children in the coalfields of West Virginia.
The Rise and Fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, by Martin Oppenheimer. Native Publishers, 2024. Concise history including the historical antecedents, the Greensboro sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the violence of KKK and police, and its demise around 1973.
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?
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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