New on the CRMVets Website for April, 2012

According to Google, 46,612 people visited the website during April. On school days, the numbers range from 900 to 2100 per day.

Please continue to send us documents, letters, reports, stories, and other Southern Freedom Movement materials from the period 1951-1968.

 — Bruce Hartford, Webspinner.

New postings on the Civil Rights Movement Veterans website since our last update:

Names Added to the Veterans Roll Call

Willie Boynton - SNCC, 1962-64, Georgia (Americus).
Will LeRoy Grimes - SNCC, SCLC, 1963-67, Georgia
Emmarene Kaigler, SNCC, Americus GA (Leesburg Stockade)
Joni Rabinowitz - SNCC, 1963, Georgia
Helmut Reinicke - SNCC, 1964, Mississippi

New Tributes & Memories added to In Memory

William "Meatball" Douthard (CORE)
Joe & Nancy Ellin (Freedom Summer)
Pauline Knight Ofosu (Freedom Rider)
Corene Watkins ("Avon Lady" of Albany GA)

New Articles About the Freedom Movement by Movement Veterans

The Labor Class at Tougaloo, Fall, 1962, Hunter Bear

Added to the History & Timeline

Summer Community Organization Political Education Project (SCOPE)

New Letters & Reports From the Field

Report re Freedom Rides, May 25, 1962 (Shreveport, LA), Dave Dennis, CORE.
Field Report, West Feliciana Parish Louisiana, Ronnie Sigal & Mimi Feingold, CORE. 1964.
Mississippi Letter, re Freedom Summer, Stephen Bingham

New Additions to Our Stories

Robert Hargreaves — Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964
Casey Hayden — Roots of Feminism in the Redemptive Community (Remembrance of SNCC)

New Additions to Our Thoughts

No new commentaries posted this month

New Additions to Discussions

No new discussions posted this month.

Added to Movement Documents

List of Document Repositories & Locations of Movement Veterans' Papers
(Best viewed with Internet Explorer)

1955: Minutes, Montgomery NAACP, Rosa Parks, Secretary
1955: Rosa Parks' Workshop Notes ~ Highlander Center (Summer 1955)
1963: Emancipation Proclamation Centennial, event flyer. NAACP, McComb, MS.
1963: Marshalls Manual for Bus, Train, and Plane Captains, March on Washington,
1963: Mississippi Newsleter, COFO, November 25, 1963
1963 Memo to SNCC Executive Committee re Mississippi Project, Bob Moses.
1964: Application for Field Worker in CORE Task Force
1964? Report from Pointe Coupee Parish, Peggy Ewan, Catherine Cortex, Sharon Burger, CORE
1964: Mississippi Freedom Summer Map, showing counties and types of projects.
1964: COFO Program (Winter 1964 - Spring 1965)
1964-65: Chronology on Jonesboro, Jackson Parish
1965: Tentative Program for New Orleans CORE, January
1965: Field Report — Washington Parish, LA (Bogalusa). January
1965: Bogalusa, Lousiana, Incident Summary, January 25 - February 21, 1965
1965: Articles of Incorporation, Deacons of Defense & Justice, Louisiana, March.
1965: Bogalusa, Lousiana, Incident Summary, January 28 - July 1, 1965 1965: Summer Parish Scouting Report — St. Tammany Parish
1965: CORE Summer Projects, 1965
1965: CORE Summer Project Orientation — Educational Program Workshop
1965: It's Going to be an Expensive Summer..., CORE, Bogalusa, LA fund-appeal letter. 1965: CORE Radio Rules & Codes (Louisiana) 1965: Report From Claiborne Parish (Homer), CORE
1967: Mississippi Newsletter, Freedom Information Service

March 31, 1967
June 23, 1967
August 4, 1967
August 11, 1967
August 18, 1967
August 25, 1967
September 1, 1967
October 20, 1967

New Additions to Poetry
The Poetry section is one of the most-visited parts of the site.

No new poems posted this month.

New Additions to Photo Album Pages:

Young People Lead the Way
The Sit-Ins — Off Campus and Into Movement
Before I'll Be a Slave...

Web Links and Bibliography updated, revised, & expanded.

As always comments, suggestions, corrections, and submissions from Freedom Movement Veterans 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 to webmaster@crmvet.org.

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