Civil Rights Movement Archive (CRMA)
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March 1st, 2021
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Sister Sites
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.
Announcements
Available online & in some theaters:
Son of the South
a film based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, written & directed
by Alabama native Barry Alexander Brown and produced by Spike Lee. The story
of how a White Southerner, from a KKK background made the decision to join the
Civil Rights Movement as the first white field secretary for SNCC.
Now Available: Julian
Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights
Movement, by Julian Bond, Danny Lyon, Pamela Horowitz, & others.
Beacon Press (January 2021). History & analysis of the Freedom Movement
based on Julian's course lecture notes and his personal insights.
Civil Rights Veterans Relief Fund
(CRVRF) Sacrifices: Not Forgotten. The Joan Trumpauer Foundation and
other organizations are raising funds to support Freedom Movement veterans who
have been impacted by Covid and the economy.
Flyer.
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. If you have paper-based materials, please make good quality
photo-copies and postal mail them to us for scanning and uploading (see
About Us for postal address).
| ???? | Mound Bayou MS canvas sheet (Bolivar Co.), Unsigned, undated |
| 1961? | Mississippi population statistics, undated (based on 1960 census). Unsigned, SNCC. Undated |
| 1962? | This is Sunflower County, Mississippi, MS. Unsigned, SNCC. Undated (possibly 1962) |
| 1962? | Statistical Report on Forrest County, MS. Unsigned, SNCC, undated (possibly 1962 or 1963) |
| 1963 | Federal Prosecution & Civil Rights in Albany Georgia, unsigned SNCC. Undated (probably August or September of 1963) |
| 1964 | Dear Friends of SNCC and Parent's Committees, Betty Garman, SNCC. Undated (probably June or July 1964 |
| 1964 | Letter to Jack Wasserman of NSF, re federal programs for northern MS. Mary Jennings, COFO. July 20, 1964 |
| 1964 | White Community Project Report - Biloxi, MS. Unsigned COFO. July 22, 1964 |
| 1964 | The Mississippi Summer Project report. Unsigned SNCC? COFO? 1964 |
| 64? 65? | First District Report (MS), unsinged SNCC. Undated (between fall 1964 & spring 1965) |
| 64? 65? | Legal Peace Corps (proposal), unsigned. Undated (possibly '64 or '65 or later) |
| 1965 | Memo to Friends of SNCC re Hammermill Paper Co re Selma Alabama. "Betty Garman & John Perdew, SNCC. Undated (possibly February 1965) |
| 1965 | Selma, Alabama (report), Silas Norman & John Love, SNCC. Early March (just before Bloody Sunday) |
| 1965 | Memo to the Staff: Provisions of the Voting Rights Bill, Marion Barry, SNCC. August 8, 1965 |
| 1965 | Proposal for a Freedom Information Center, unsigned FIS. Undated (possibly November 1965) |
| 1965 | Dear Friend thank-you letter & fund appeal to supporters, John Lewis, SNCC. November 1965 |
| 1965 | To Cynthia Washington: Prospectus for a SNCC Store, Don Shaw & Boston Friends of SNCC. November 1965 |
| 66? | Report re Summary of Meeting on Structure. Unsigned, SNCC. Undated (possibly 1966) |
| 1966 | Migrant Farmworkers Project: Report to the SNCC Staff, Gren Whitman, SNCC. Undated 1966 |
| 1966 | Memo on school desegregation, Betty Garman, SNCC. March 2, 1966 |
| 1966 | Research report: Crisp County GA, unsigned, SNCC. April, 1966 |
| 1966 | News of the Field #7, Unsigned, SNCC. April 6, 1966 |
| 1966 | Memo to Staff re, John Lewis' resignation and Stokely Carmichael, SNCC Communications, July 26, 1966 |
| 1966 | SNCC Charts a Course, Stokely Carmichael interview. May 1966 (just before "Black Power" |
| 1967 | Joint Statement on racism & imperialism, SNCC, MPI, FUPI. January 25, 1967
|
| 1967 | Speech at the University of Puerto Rico, January 25 1967 |
| 1967 | Speech to University of Puerto Rico student body, Stokely Carmichael, SNCC. January 28, 1967 |
| 1968 | Honky Harrassment of Chairman Rap, unsigned SNCC. March 3, 1968 |
WATS Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
Press Releases
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
New Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
| | 7/21 | Report from Moss Point, Unsigned COFO |
| | 7/22 | Report on meeting with Joe _____, MS (handwritten), Wesley A_______ |
| | 7/22 | Report on meeting with Ralph Wisedess?, MS (handwritten), Wesley A_______ |
| | 7/23 | Report on meeting with Rev. S_____ Mason?, MS (handwritten) |
| | 7/24 | Memo to George (Raymond?), re request for speaker in Rankin Co. MS, Natalie Tompkins, COFO |
| | 7/24 | Report from Mississippi NAACP Headquarters, re Dr. King speaking tour & other topics, Lee Ball |
| | 7/25 | Report From Clarksdale No. 1, MS. Fraser Thomason |
Affadavits of Repression, Retaliation & Violence
| 1964 | Beating of CORE Worker by Jackson police, affadavit of Richard Jewett. March 30, 1964 (HTML version) |
| 1964 | Soldier insulted, hit, and jailed in Jackson, affadavit of 1st Lt. Emanuael Schriber, U.S. Army. April 1, 1964 |
| 1964 | Denial of the Right to Vote in Greenwood MS, affadavits of several citizens. April 1, 1964 |
| 1964 | John Mathews, affadavit regarding false arrest of SCLC citzenship teacher |
| 1964 | Firing of Voter Registration Applicant, affadavit of Willis Wright. April 10, 1964 |
| 1964 | Jail Treatment of White Student in Jackson MS, affadavit of Eli Hochstedler. April 16, 1964 |
| 1964 | Beating of Negro Voter Registration Worker in Southwest MS, affadavit of Archie Curtis. April 23, 1964 |
| No new names added to the Roll Call this month |
New Tributes & Memories added to In Memory
No new answers added this month.
New Additions to Poetry
The Poetry section is one of the most-visited parts of the
site.
| No new poems added this month. |
New Additions to the Photo Album Pages:
Resources & Other
Updated & Expanded: Database of CRM-Related Document & Oral-History Archived and Repositories
Recent Books, Films, & Videos by Freedom Movement Veterans
BOOKS:
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.
My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil
Rights Movement, by Gwendolyn (Gwen) Patton. NewSouth Books, 2020.
Autobiography & Movement memoir by a long-term stalwart of the Freedom
Movement — Montgomery Bus Boycott & Montgomery Improvement
Association, student sit-ins, Freedom Rides, student activism at Tuskegee,
voter-registration and rural organizing, Selma and the March to Montgomery.
Year Forever in my Veins, by Faith
Holsaert. Backbone Press, 2020. Chapbook of poems growing out of letters home
to mother and sister during year working with SNCC in Southwest Georgia.
Our Sixties,
by Freedom Movement veteran Paul Lauter. University of Rochester Press, 2020.
Examination of the values, exploits, victories, implications, and failings, of
the "Movement" in the 1960s. Includes chapters about Freedom Summer of 1964,
Natchez in the summer of 1965, and a community school in DC, 1966.
Mississippi & After: A Life
in Equal Justice Law, by Gil Venable (1942-2019), One Monkey Books,
2020. Memoir of a law student assisting the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law in Jackson, MS.
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country ~ The Benton County Civil Rights
Movement, by Roy DeBerry, Aviva Futorian, Stephen Klein, and John
Lyons. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. History of the Benton movement
and personal narratives of local Freedom Movement participants.
A Small Town Rises: A Sharecropper and a College Girl Join the Struggle for
Justice in Shaw, Mississippi, by Lee Anna Sherman with Movement
veterans Eddie Short and recent college grad Mary Sue Gellatly. Bog Lily
Press, 2020. Chronicles the lives of two civil rights activists who met in the
tiny cotton-town of Shaw during Freedom Summer and joined forces with local
black activist Andrew Hawkins and a host of courageous townspeople to
challenge and disrupt the status quo in the heart of the Mississippi Delta.
Tip of the Arrow: the Selma Student Nonviolent Movement, a Study in
Leadership, by Charles Bonner. Page Publishing, 2020. An
"up-from-below" and "inside-out" examination of, and personal
narratives by, the young students of Selma Alabama who from 1963 to 1965 were
the tip of the nonviolent arrow in the fight for freedom and equality. Charles
Bonner, the author, was one of the main student leaders and then a SNCC field
secretary. Today he is one of the boldest civil rights attorneys in
California.
Race Man: Selected Works,
1960-2015, by Julian Bond. City Lights Publishers; 2020).
"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.
FILM & VIDEO:
Son of the South
a film based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek. The story of how a
White Southerner, from a KKK background made the decision to join the Civil
Rights Movement as the first white field secretary for SNCC.
SNCC (Trailer).
A 2020 film by SNCC photographer Danny Lyon that brings together never seen
made during the years he was employed as the staff photographer for the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The images are layered with
archival audio recordings of speeches by, and conversations with, John Lewis,
Julian Bond, Dotty Zellner, among others, as well as freedom songs that were
recorded by Alan Ribback in churches and meetings in Atlanta in the 1960s and
recently rediscovered.
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.
They Say I'm Your
Teacher, nine minute video by Lucy Phenix about the Citizenship
Schools (exerpted from the film You Got to Move: Stories of Change in
the South.)
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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