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Ever since Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement established this CRMVet website in late 1999, it has been funded by donations from Freedom Movement veterans and individual supporters. We carry on this work without foundation grants or high-donor contributions. The only institutional support we receive is from Tougaloo College who provides 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.One Person, One Vote. SNCC Legacy Project & Duke University. Chronicles SNCC's role in the historic struggles for voting rights and develops ongoing programs that contribute to a more civil and inclusive democracy in the 21st century.
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.
Please continue to send us documents, letters, reports, stories, and other Southern Freedom Movement materials from the period 1951-1968.
Mary Ellickson - COFO 1964 MS Dan Stefanich - SCLC/SCOPE 1965 AL
William Porter, SNCC Wally Roberts, volunteer
Press Releases
1962 SNCC's letter about the Spring Conference, Charles McDew, SNCC. 5/14/62 1963? Over 70 Arrested, Protestors Pack Jail, Unsigned, CNAC. Undated (probably 1963) 1964 Prospectus For a Nation-Wide High School SNCC Conference, Lyn Wells, SNCC. Undated (probably 1964) 1964 Affadavit of Judy Richardson, Heart of Atlanta Motel, 1964 1964 Mississippi State Bill attempt to stop Freedom Schools, Unsigned, SNCC. June 1964 1964 Letter to Amzie Moore re Anne visit to Cleveland (OH) 9/16/64, Carl Braden, NAACP 1964 Letter to Norma Becker re tax-free giving (MS) 9/21/64, Lois Chaffee, COFO 1964 Letter to Lois Chaffee re Clarksdale community center (MS) 9/23/64, Idessa Johnson, COFO 1964 Letter to Northern Student Movement re materials for Freedom Schools (MS) 9/23/64, Lois Chaffee, COFO 1964 Letter to Idessa Johnson re salaries (MS) 9/24/64, Lois Chaffee, COFO 1964 Letter to Virginia Steele re coming to Batesville (MS) 9/24/64, Lois Chaffee, COFO 1964 Letter to George Alberts re Community Playthings donation (MS) 9/24/64, Lois Chaffee, COFO 1964 Letter to Rogre Barkley re prison camps (GA) 9/24/64, Betty Garman, SNCC 1964 Freedom Registration, Unsigned, COFO. September 26 1964 1964 Memo to Friends of SNCC, Betty Garman, SNCC. September 28 1964 1964 Montgomery Improvement Association Mass Meeting, Unsigned, MIA. October 5 1964 1964 Letter to Lois Chaffee re medical help in Mississippi (MS) 10/7/64, Fay Stender, COFO 1964 Letter to Lois Chaffee re student activism in Eugene (OR) 10/7/64, Unsigned, COFO 1964 Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Senzibar re architects to help plan centers (MS) 10/11/64, Lois Chaffee, COFO 1964 Letter to Frank Manuel and A.H. Maslow re northern support (MS) 10/11/64, Lois Chaffee, COFO 1964 Letter to John Else re northern support (MS) 10/13/64, Lois Chaffee, COFO 1964 Letter to Marvin Rich re architects to help plan centers (MS), Lois Chaffee, COFO 1964 Letter to J.E.H. Bolton re northern support (MS) 10/13/64, Lois Chaffee, COFO 1965? Greene County, Alabama, Statiscal Profile #2, Unsigned, SNCC. Undated (probably 1965) 1966 Fact Sheet: Background on poor peoples' use of Greenville AFB, Unsigned, Delta Ministry. 1966 1966? The Real Demands, Unsigned, AAAWV. Undated (possibly 1966) 1966? How Long Can the U.S. Government Be Hypocritical Liars?, Unsigned, CORE. Undated (possibly 1966) 1966 Grenada MS organizer's canvasing map (showing Afro-American streets) 1968 SNCC lawsuit against the U.S. government, Unsigned, SNCC. 1968
63? CNAC Cambridge Direct Action (Sit-in arrests) 6/21/63 SNCC Direct Action Begins in Clarksdale 6/25/63 SNCC SNCC press releases
SNCC Asks Sanders to Protect Six in Albany Church
10 Jailed in Greenwood, 5 Shot Near Canton, Miss7/8/63 SNCC Folk Artists, Local Citizens Attend SNCC Folk Festival in Mississippi 7/9/63 SNCC Justice Departament Sues to Release Negroes Imprisoned After Vote Meeting 7/9/63 SNCC Six Students Arrested in Greenville, Mississippi 7/16/63 SNCC SNCC press releases
NAACP Miss. Youths Picket Barnett
New Freedom Uniform in Albany7/30/63 SNCC 56 Arrested Trying to Present Clarksdale Petition 7/30/63 SNCC SNCC Chairman Makes Appeal For 68 in Parchman State Penitenciary 8/6/63 SNCC Delta Negroes To Make Vote Attempts in August 6 Democratic Primary 12/5/64 SNCC U.S. Govt. Gives $1,500,000 to Mississippi September 30, 1964
October 1, 1964
SNCC October 2, 1964
October 3, 1964
October 4, 1964
Letter to Joffre re negative for prints (MS) 9/22/64 Lois Chaffee, COFO Letter to Lois Chaffee re recruiting teachers (MS) 9/24/64 Sandra Adickes, UFT Letter to Lois Chaffee re need of support (MS) 9/24/64 Mary Sue, COFO Letter to Lorne Cress re returning to Hattiesburg (MS) 9/24/64 Lois Chaffee, COFO Brief Report on Guinea 9/24/64 Unsigned, SNCC
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Emma Allen Oral History interviewed by Joe Sinsheimer (Greenwood, MS) Sam Block Oral History interviewed by Joe Sinsheimer (Greenwood, MS) Wazir Peacock Oral History interviewed by Joe Sinsheimer (MS) Bayard Rustin Interview by Robert Penn Warren Ralph Tyler Rick Harper in Greene County, Alabama 1966
Letter to My Adolescent Son Jean Wiley Southern White Activists on Why They Joined the Movement Multiple authors
No new discussion transcripts posted this month
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No new poems added this month.
March on Washington Freedom Summer March to Montgomery Before I'll Be a Slave... Poor Peoples Campaign & I Am a Man
FILM & VIDEO: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 CORE 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.
BOOKS:
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 and James Ralph. 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.
Brother Hollis: The Sankofa of a Movement Man, by Hollis Watkins. Sankofa Publishing, 2016. Personal memoir of a long-term SNCC organizer from Mississippi.
The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North, by Mary Lou Finley. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. An alternative assessment of the Chicago Freedom Movement by an activist that examines aspects beyond just the open housing anti-slum protests.
White Lawyer, Black Power: Civil Rights Lawyering during the Black Power Era in Mississippi and Alabama, by Don Jelinek. Jelinek Publishers, 2015. A personal memoir of civil rights lawyering during 1965-1968 by a SNCC organizer and ACLU lawyer.
Up Above My Head: I See Freedom in the Air, by Carol Seay. Xlibris, 2015. Story of the "Stolen Girls" incarcerated in the Leesburg Stockade for protesting segregation in Americus GA. Told by one of the young women who endured captivity to fight for freedom.
Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer, by Charles Prickett. Wordrunner Press, 2015. First-person account of a college student and civil rights activist, who worked during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964.
Selma: And It's Aftermath, by Bill Monnie. A Snowy Day Distribution & Publishing, 2015. Ground-up history portrayed through photographs of the people who were literally the "boots on the ground" activists.
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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