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NEW NAME! As you can see above, we're now the Civil Rights Movement Archive. When we started this website 20 years ago (yikes!) its initial purpose was to facilitate communications between veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement and work towards reknitting that "beloved community" we once strived so hard to achieve. So we called it the "Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website." While it continues to perform that purpose, the site has grown far beyond our original concept. We're now one of the largest (possibly the largest) online collection of original Freedom Movement materials in the world — and still growing. So we've changed our name to more accurately describe what we actually are and to encourage students and researchers to discover our "From the Bottom Up" and "Inside Out" perspective on the Civil Rights Movement.
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.
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.
1957 Statement by the President (re Little Rock school crisis), President Dwight Eisenhower. September 21 1957 ???? Officials Bolivar County, Unsigned, SNCC. Undated ???? Officials Sunflower County, Unsigned, SNCC. Undated 62-66? Threats against student protest, "unsigned, Sunflower County (MS) school board. Undated (1962-1966) 1962 Weapons in the Struggle for Civil Rights, discussion paper on civil liberties and freedom of speech for SNCC conference, Ann and Carl Braden, SCEF. April 27, 1962 1963 Finding and Making Leaders, Nicolas von Hoffman, SDS. Reprinted by CORE 1965 1964 Abolish House Committe on Un-American Activities petition, Unsigned, SNCC. 1964 1964 Marin Friends of SNCC mailing, Unsigned, SNCC. Undated 1964 Communications from members of Congress re Freedom Summer, Senators Keating & Javits and Representative Reid, June-July 1964 1964 Ruleville Freedom School schedule, Unsigned, SNCC. 1964 1964 Community information canvasing form for Ruleville, MS. Unsigned, SNCC. July 1964 1964 Financial report, Hattiesburg MS Robert Beech, Delta Ministry 1964 Letter to Amzie Moore re re-election of William Ming to NAACP board, S.W. Tucker, NAACP. 11/23/64. 1964 Letter to George Raymond Jr. re legal and farmer-related issues, Richard Haley, CORE. 11/20/64 1965 The Story of Greenwood, Mississippi, album liner notes & background. Guy Caraway, SNCC, 1965 1965? SNCC WATS line Atlanta Schedule undated (possibly 1965) 1965 Program to Aid in the Development of Rural Communities, Unsigned, CORE Research. December 1964 1965 What is Operation Headstart?, Unsigned, CORE. March 1965 1965 Medical Committee for Human Rights, Louisianna State Office, CORE. July, 1965 64-66? Proposed Educational Program, Unsigned, SNCC. Undated (possibly late 1964 to early 1966) 1965 How do Negroes live in Arkansas, Unsigned, SNCC research report. Undated 1965 1965 Statement of Mrs. Victoria Gray, re the MFDP Congressional Challenge. June 29, 1965 1965 Louisiana CORE Newsletter, Unsigned, CORE. July 1965 1965 Voter Registration: A Means to Community Political Power, Unsigned, CORE. July 1965 1965 Victoria Gray statement re MFDP Congressional Challenge. July 1, 1965 1965 Report on the MFDP Congressional Challenge, Lawrence Guyot, MFDP. July 7, 1965 1966 Georgia Legislature Refuses to Seat Freedom Worker, re Vietnam War opposition. Unsigned, SNCC. January 11, 1966 1966 MFDP Federal lawsuit re discrimination in voting, MFDP Legal Team. April 1966 1966 Background Information on Freedom Elections Alabama, Unsigned, SNCC. May 3, 1966 1966 Sunflower Elections Put Off, Lela Mae Brooks and Mary Francis Williams, SNCC. June 30, 1966 1967 Publications Available from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, unsigned SNCC. March 17, 1967 1967 NY SNCC Newsletter, Unsigned, SNCC. May 1967 1967 National Conference on Black Power announcement, Nathan Wright. May 2, 1967 1967 Telegram from Movement leaders criticizing SNCC for proposing protest against Luci Johnson's wedding, Dr. King, Roy Wilkins, A. Phillip Randolph, and Whitney Young. August 1967 1967 Preventitive House Arrest of Chairman H. Rap Brown, Unsigned, SNCC. December 1967 1968 Dialectics of Black Power, Robert Allen, Guardian newspaper. January 1968 1968 What Must Be Done, Unsigned, SNCC. February 1968 Mississippi Free Press issues:
November 24, 1962, MS Union Leader Attacks Hate Group, Legislature considers reapportionment December 1, 1962, Jackson Plant Ordered to Rehire Union Men, Appeal Seeks to Release Kennard December 8, 1962, Greenville workers vote for union at plants, Illegal "Yellow Dog" contracts used to intimidate workers December 15, 1962, Resolutions support federal aid for farms but not schools, Operation Freedom to Assist Delta Citizens December 22, 1962, Nation-wide petition for Clyde Kennard, Rural areas lose influence in reapportionment proposal December 29, 1962, U.S. to prosecute Governor Barnett & Lt. Governer Johnson, Lawsuites filed against denial of voting rights in Hattiesburg
11/22/61 SNCC The start of it all in Albany, Georgia 1966? SNCC Publication of Perspectives on the Atlanta Rebellion 1967 SNCC Eastman Kodak is Out of Focus, re employment discrimination. Undated 1967. 3/3/67 SNCC Repression against student protesters in Orangeburg SC 3/7/67 SNCC Seven SNCC Workers Indicted, re anti-Vietnam War & draft protests 4/10/67 SNCC Black Students in Nashville Victims of Police Set-Up WATS Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC September 21, 1964
Voter Registration Drive in Albany so far (GA) 12/62 Faith Holsaert, SNCC Bon Jour! The waters of Southwest Georgia (GA) 12/1/62 Unsigned, SNCC Letter re SNCC and The Albany Movement (GA) 12/1/162 Betsy Wycoff, SNCC Report on Holmes County (MS) 11/21/64 Mary Brumder, COFO Letter to Lois Chaffee re help from WILPF (MS) 11/23/64 Mary Sue Gellatly, COFO Letter to Amzie Moore re money order and payments (MS) 11/27/64 Maurice McCrackin, OFC
Doris Derby Oral History Interview Rev. Dean Hay Hattiesburg Diary (MS) 1964 Dr. Robert Hayling Interview re St. Augustine Movement (FL) Victoria Gray Interview by Joe Sinsheimer re Hattiesburg, MS 1987 Affadavits of Police Brutality & Violence
1962 Statement of Dorothy Conrod, Mr. Lundgor and Edward Taylor, re Sisson home shooting, 1962 1964 Affadavit of Robert Earl Beverly, re Black grade school students forced into plantation labor, 1964 1964 Affadavit of Eddie Childs, re Black grade school students forced into plantation labor, 1964 1964 Affadavit of Bettie Jean Doss, re Black grade school students forced into slave labor, 1964
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Dorris Wright - NAACP, 1959-1961, SC Jim Owens - SCLC/SCOPE, 1965, GA
Elaine Peacock
Rosa Parks, Nikki Giovanni Miz Rosa Rides the Bus, Angela Jackson Afterimages, Audre Lorde
March to Montgomery
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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