According to Google, 22,938 people visited the website during November for an average of 747 per day. On school days, the number of visitors ranged from 450 to 1000 per day. (Most of our traffic comes on school days, least amount on weekends when they're not doing their homework.) Roughly 17% of our visitors came from outside the U.S.
— Bruce Hartford, Webspinner.
Ever since Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement established this CRMVet website in late 1999, it has been funded by personal donations from Freedom Movement activists and individual supporters. We carry on this work without any foundation grants or high-donor contributions. The only institutional support we receive is from Tougaloo College in Jackson MS who provide the web server on which the site runs. They will assume responsibility for the site when we can no longer continue. So if you find our CRMVet site useful and worthy, we ask for your donation to keep it growing. Thank you for anything you are able to contribute.Please consider converting your PayPal donation to an automatic monthly contribution by checking the "Make this a monthly donation" box on the amount screen when it pops up.
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.
The 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.
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.
The Spirit of Freedom. CD $25. A vocal duet by award winning vocalist LaRhonda Steele and Karen Haberman Trusty (SNCC, 1963-1964). This CD is a collection of modern versions of Freedom Songs and spoken word pieces about SNCC and its significance for today. "These songs are the Battle Cry against the oppression of my people. I am deeply moved by this project and its relevance," LaRhonda Steele. To order, email: ktobas@gmail.com.
Organizing Our Strength for Tomorrow: A Call to Gather on SNCC's 60th Anniversary. Washington, DC. April 16-19, 2020. For details and registration information: SNCC 60th Anniversary Conference.
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 send us documents, letters, reports, stories, and other Southern Freedom Movement materials from the period 1951-1968.
3/20/64 SNCC SNCC press releases:
Greenwood Freedom Day Set
Fact Sheet on LeFlore County, Mississippi7/16/64 SNCC Drew Police Arrest 25 More 10/18/64 SNCC Over 50 Mississippi Bombing and Burning Incidents 7/31/65 SNCC Maid Strike: Join Freedom Union 8/1/65 SNCC Clarification of MFDP statement & position on Vietnam War Publications
1965 CORE-Lator CORE national newsletter, May-June, 1965 Mississippi Free Press issues:
January 5, 1962, Two activists arrested for bring food to starving families, Picketers Attempt to Disqualify Judge Cox January 12, 1963, Ministers Speak Out on Discrimination, Conservatives Lose House Rules Battle January 19, 1963, Meredith harrassed at 'Ole Miss, Mississippi group calls for civil rights hearings January 26, 1963, Clyde Kennard dying of cancer refused medical treatment, Gulf Coast school segreagation February 2, 1963, Meredith Will Return to Ole Miss, Kennard released from jail Febuary 9, 1963, Ole Miss case goes to circuit court, Four beatings in Brandon February 16, 1963, Sharecroppers Tell of Poverty in Delta, Federal money supports job bias February 23, 1963, ILGWU Says Firm Threatened Workers, Oppose U.S. Support to Bias in Training
1963? Report from Sasser GA Faith Holsaert, Ralph Allen 12/27/63 Report on perjury sentence & SWGA work Joni Rabinowitz (SNCC) 6/18/64 Letter to Tom Levin re medical support (MS) Carol Rogoff, SNCC 2/65 Selma Alabama and the White Northern Liberal (AL) Judy Walborn (MFP-SU)
Letters & Reports From Sunflower Co. & Ruleville Mississippi 9/21/62 Letter to President John F. Kennedy voting threats Charles R. McLaurin (SNCC) 12/04/62 Ruleville and Drew report Unsigned (SNCC) 1/63 Update from Sunflower County Unsigned (SNCC) 1964 Ruleville threats & shootings for registering to vote Charles Cobb (SNCC) 1964 M.C. Perry Charged with Distrubing the Peace C.A. Frerichs (SNCC) 8/64 Harrassment in Sunflower County Leonard Edward (COFO? SNCC?)
Fred Battle Oral History Interview (Chapel Hill, Greensboro) Phil Hutchings Oral History interview (SNCC) Sheila Michaels Sitting-In on Attorney General Robert Kennedy (DC) Bayard Rustin Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow, 1942 Michael Thelwell Oral History Interview (DC) Affadavits of Repression, Retaliation & Violence
1964 Affadavit of Leona McClendon and Tommy Buckley, re fired for supporting civil rights workers 1964 Affadavit of Martha Connely and Mr. Connely , re Blacklisted for housing white civil rights workers 1964 Affadavit of Leonard Davis, re Blacklisted for housing white civil rights workers 1964 Affadavit of Willieball Smith, re Fired for helping with voter registration 1964 Affadavit of Eva Mae Williams, re Black grade students forced into slave labor 1964 Affadavit of Darnella West, re Black grade students forced into slave labor 1964 Affadavit of William Beverly, re Black grade school students forced into slave labor 1964 Affadavit of Roy Childs, re Black grade school students forced into slave labor 1964 Affadavit of Shirley Ford, re Black grade school students forced into slave labor
1964 Mississippi Eyewitness, Ramparts Magazine special report.
Cover & front matter
The Faces of Philadelphia (MS), James Marshall
The Tip-Off, John Howard Griffen
Contents & end papers1965 Negro alliances article, Bob Moses, SNCC. Pacific Scene February 1965
Four Essays on Mississippi: America's Only Police State Carl Young, 1964
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
Jack O'Dell
The Little Rock 9, by Afaa Michael Weaver
BOOKS:
FILM & VIDEO:"Troublemaker" Memories of the Freedom Movement, by Bruce Hartford. Westwind Writers, 2019. Personal boots-on-the-ground memoir of four years service in the American Civil Rights Movement, 1963-1967.
Southern White Girl Seeks Social Change: A Twentieth Century Memoir, by Nancy Stoller. Bright Stuff, 2019. A memoir from the dawn of SNCC, women's liberation, and young people who "de-segregated" the US, each body on the line, every eye on the prize.
Acts of Resistance: A Freedom Rider Looks Back on the Civil Rights Movement, by Judith Frieze Wright. Apple Bay Publishing, 2019. A memoir of one person's experience in Mississippi during the early sixties.
Mississippi Reckoning, (novel) by Mitchell Zimmerman. Amazon/Kindle Direct Publishing 2019. The story of a despairing man's pursuit of justice for the victims of segregationist brutality, set against a sweeping backdrop of white supremacy rampant and the civil rights struggles of the 1940s and 1960s.
Crusader Without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr, by L.D. Reddick and Derryn Moten. Reissued by New South Books, 2018. First biography of Dr. King originally written in 1959 and now reissued.
Mississippi's Exiled Daughter, by Brenda Travis with John Obee. Story of Brenda Travis, whose 1961 arrest as a teenager helped galvanize opposition to racial discrimination in Mississippi. New South Books, June 2018.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964: A History in Documents, by James P. Marshall. Louisiana State University Press, 2018. Freedom Movement veteran traces through government documents the Kennedy Administration's response to the Mississippi Movement.
Hope's Kids: A Voting Rights Summer, by Alan Venable. One Monkey Books, 2017. Describes Brandeis University's 1965 SCLC-SCOPE project in South Carolina.
Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966- 1971, by Martin L. Deppe. University of Georgia Press, 2017. Untold Story, of the unheralded leaders of thel SCLC program based in Chicago that broke a market stranglehold by white businesses in Black communities and empowered Black businesses in their own neighborhoods and beyond.
1967 NBC News Interview with Martin Luther King, that was never broadcast and not made available until 2018. (27 minutes.)Traveling With Dr. King, by Sunnylands & Gandhi-King Institute for Nonviolence. 2019. Video remembrance by people who knew and worked closely with Dr. King.
Iowans Return to Freedom Summer, by Keeping History Alive foundation. 2018. Firsthand accounts from six Freedom Summer volunteers from Iowa who reflect on their motivations, fears, triumphs and the life altering events that took place 50 years ago.
Heather Booth: Changing the World, a documentary film by Lily Rivlin. 2017. How the Civil Rights Movement inspired SNCC activist and Freedom Summer volunteer Heather Booth to a lifetime of fighting for social justice.
Stand for Freedom: The Life & Times of Willie B. Wazir Peacock The story of Willie Peacock, one of the original SNCC field secretaries organzing in the Mississippi Delta. YouTube.
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 to webmaster@crmvet.org.
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