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February 1st, 2023
IMPORTANT NOTE: Missing Pages & Images? 404 Errors?If you encounter an empty box on a page where an image should be, or if you click on a link and get some kind of "Not Founderror, please email us at [email protected] for your help.
According to Google, there were 26,509 visits to the CRMA website during January for an average of 855 per day. This is approximately 18% less than January of last year (during the pandemic). Roughly 13% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 800 to 1600 per day.
As of February 1st, our online archive contains 8847 searchable webpages, documents, and images plus 130 videos in our Vimeo video channel.
Please Donate.With a Little Help From Our Friends,We'll keep on keeping on.
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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Our Sister Sites
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.See Also50 Cent's Residence In 2023: A Glimpse Into His Living ArrangementsCivil Rights Movement Archive -- New, added during last month!
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.
Announcements
Now Available, Stayed On Freedom, by Dan Berger, Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons. The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey, is 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.
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 1951-1968. See Submissions details.
Top Five
According to Google, our top-five, most-visited pages in January were:
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- Freedom Movement Posters
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote?—Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- What were the failures of the Civil Rights Movement? (FAQ)
- Martin Luther King Resources
(Google does not count how often PDF files are accessed, so since most of the documents on our site are in PDF format our "Top Five" list is not as accurate as we wish it were.)
CRMA Video Channel 
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:
Nannie Louise Pinchback's Letter from Jail, Danville, VA, 1963, read by herself. By S. Wolen and IMLS Institute for Museum and Library Services. 2010. 4min
James Farmer Lectures:Civil Rights Movement Overview, 27min. Transcript.Militant Resistance and the Harlem Riots, 32min. Transcript.Course Exam Review and Q&A, 34min. Transcript.James Farmer Reflections:
- Freedom Movement of the 1940s-1960s, 27min. Transcript.
- Beginning of the Nonviolence Movement of the 1940s-1960s, 26min. Transcript.
- The Creation of the Freedom Rides, 30min. Transcript.
- The Beginning of the Freedom Rides, 29min. Transcript.
- Malcolm X, Nation of Islam, Debate at Cornell, 29min. Transcript.
- Malcolm X, Changing Perspectives, Untimely Death, 27min. Transcript.
- March on Washington, Plaquemine, LA., 27min. Transcript.
- Plaquemine, LA, Escape from Mob, 27min. Transcript.
- Freedom Summer, Missing CORE Volunteers, 26min. Transcript.
- Freedom Summer, Death of CORE Volunteers, 29min. Transcript.
- Bogalusa, Louisiana, Movement, Deacons of Defense and Justice, 29min. Transcript.
- The Struggle for Identity Among Black Activists , 27min. Transcript.
- Illiteracy and the Center for Community Action Education, 29min. Transcript.
New Audio recordings added in January
John C. Morris, Interview re the movement in Batesville by Cheryl Johnson. 23min. Transcript
New Movement Documents
1941 Letter calling for a march on Washington, by A. Philip Randolph (BSCP) to Walter White (NAACP). March 18, 1941 1941 Executive Order 8022 prohibiting employment discrimination in defense industries, President Roosevelt, June 25, 1941. 1947 To Secure These Rights, The Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights. President Truman. October 1947 [PDF 180 pages] 1948 Executive Order 9980, Regulations Governing Fair Employment Practices Within the Federal Establishment (desegregating the federal government). President Truman, July 26, 1947 HTML version 1948 Executive Order 9981, Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services (desegregating the military). President Truman, July 26, 1947 HTML version 1964 Resolution of the Parents and Citizens of Washington County, (MS) re school integration and reform. September 1964 1965 Court testimony, Williams v. Wallace, March to Montgomery injunction, Hosea Williams (SCLC), John Lewis (SNCC), Amelia Boynton (DCVL). March, 1965 1965 One Year Later ... a Message From Nathan Schwerner, SNCC fund appeal. June 21, 1965 1965 Summons, Contempt of Court, against COFO, MFDP, DM. July 2 1965 1965 Freedom Caravan to Washington DC, re congressional challenge. Unsigned SNCC. July 7, 1964 1966 Emergency Appeal, re Greenville Air Base occupaton and Mississippi poverty. Unsigned PPF. January 28, 1965 1966 Black Consciousness, memo to SNCC staff from Janet Jemott, Bob Paris, Dona Richards, Doug & Tina Harris re African-Afro-American cultural program. Undated 1966. Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
3/26/65 FoS Donation for Selma march, Kristen Christensen, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Madison WI 3/29/65 FoS Donation for Selma campaign, Bronson LaFollette, Winsconsin Attorney General 3/29/65 FoS Donation, L. Drake, Univ. Wisconsin 3/30/65 FoS Letter to FoS re Selma, John Doar, AAG, U.S. Dept. of Justice 4/8/65 FoS Donation from Wisconsin Attorney General, Bronson La Follette
New
9/16/64 Marj Rader Sutherland, COFO Dear Mom, Dad..., letter from Gulfport MS project. Original handwritten version 10/4/64 Eartiss J. Crawford, COFO Weekly Report, Federal programs Madison Co. MS 10/4/64 Unsigned, CORE/COFO Federal programs Madison Co. MS 10/4/64 Arlene Bock, CORE/COFO Weekly Report , Madison Co. MS 10/4/64 Judy Hampton, CORE/COFO Daily Reports 9/27-9/30, Madison Co. MS 3/29/65 Ben Hartfield, SNCC Letter to Alicia Kaplow (FoS), re Laurel MS 4/6/65 Eugene (Dean) Hite, SNCC Note to Alicia Kaplow requesting subsistance funding (handwritten). Eugene (Dean) Hite, MS 4/8/65 Karen (Koonan?), SNCC Note re subsistance funding for Fred Winn 4/8/65 Margaret Lauren, SNCC Note re subsistance funding priorities
New Additions to Our Stories
John C. Morris Interview re the Movement in Batesville MS. By Cheryl Johnson Audio Recording Abby Young Those Who Came, Journal from AFSC Voter Registration Project Sumter, SC, 1966
New
1934 Postscript by W.E.B. DuBois. January 1934 editorial in The Crisis, re segregation, integration, and Black cooperation & self-help. (See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for background.) 1935 The Slave Market, Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke, NAACP. From The Crisis Nov. 1935 1947 Address Before the NAACP, President Truman, June 29, 1947 1963 The Significance of the Mae Mallory Case Calvin Hicks, Freedomways Spring 1963 1963 The Negro Movement — New Heights Joann Grant, Freedomways, Spring 1963 1963 Note on the Economic Status of the Negro in the United States Herbert Hill, Freedomways, Spring 1963 1963 The McCarran Act and the Negro Freedom Movement Benjamin Davis, Freedomways, Spring 1963 1965 Our Main Battle in Albany Slater King, Freedomways. 3rd Quarter, 1965 1965 August 28—Anniversary of Dream Reborn, editors, Freedomways. 3rd Quarter, 1965
New Additions to Our Thoughts
I Have Seen Freedom Si Kahn Registering Black Voters one Soul at a Time Sherie Labedis, 2022 Rev. Willie Blue shares a half century of SNCC history..., 2010 Class Notes & Transcripts: Civil Rights Movement - 20th Century James Farmer, 1986 Civil Rights Movement Overview Militant Resistance and the Harlem Riots Freedom Movement of the 1940s-1960s Beginning of the Nonviolence Movement of the 1940s-1960s The Creation of the Freedom Rides The Beginning of the Freedom Rides Malcolm X, Nation of Islam, Debate at Cornell Malcolm X, Changing Perspectives, Untimely Death March on Washington, Visit to Plaquemine, LA Plaquemine, LA, Escape from Mob Freedom Summer, Missing CORE Volunteers Freedom Summer, Death of CORE Volunteers Bogalusa, LA movement, Deacons of Defense and Justice The Struggle for Identity Among Black Activists Illiteracy and the Center for Community Action Education
New Names Added to the Activist Roll Call
William H. Brault - SCLC/SCOPE, 1965, AL [Portland, OR]
Abby Young - AFSC, 1966, SC [Santa Cruz, CA]
New Tributes & Memories added to In Memory
Rev. Willie Blue
Casey Hayden
Wille Curtis Johnson
Cleophas Orange
New Additions to Poetry
No new poems added this month.
New Additions to the Photo Album Pages:
The Volunteers Freedom Movement Posters
Web Links and Bibliography updated, revised, & expanded.
Recent Books by or About Movement Veterans:
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."
Memoirs Of A Revolution Experience Through Poetry And Poems, by Lulu Westbrook Griffin. Page Publishing Co, 2022. The personal story of a young activist in Southwest Georgia during the height of 1960s Freedom Movement who was held for 45 days in the infamous Leesburg stockade.
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (New Reprint). By Susan Erenrich (ed). New South Books, 2021. Large compilation of valuable original source material on Civil Rights Movement.
Run: Book One, by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin. Sequel to the March triology. "First you march, then you run." Graphic-novel format memoir by John Lewis recounting the Freedom Movement after passage of the Voting Rights Act—including the pushback of those who resist social change and refuse to accept racial equality and justice, and the continuing struggles of those who believe change has not gone far enough.
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider, by Charles Person. Gripping personal narrative by the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Rider who endured the racist violence in Alabama.
It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, by C.T. Vivian with Steve Fiffer. NewSouth Books, 2021. Personal memoir and observations by one of the key central figures in the Freedom Movement. From student sit-ins to the Freedom Rides to the battles for voting rights and a fair share of political and economic power, C.T. Vivian was on the ground in the action.
Fire at the Freedom House, by Matt Rinaldi. 2021. Personal memoir of a white activist working Attala County, Mississippi, in 1966 under the organizing direction of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) led by Lawrence Guyot and Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer.
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, by Julian Bond, Danny Lyon, Pamela Horowitz, & others. Beacon Press (2021). History & analysis of the Freedom Movement based on Julian's course lecture notes and his personal insights.
Doris Derby: A Civil Rights Journey, by Doris Derby. Mack Books. 2021. Photo and narrative autobiography by long-time SNCC veteran.
RECENT FILMS & VIDEOS By or About Movement Veterans:
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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