According to Google, there were 18,405 visits to the CRMA website during September for an average of 614 per day. This represents a 14% increase over September of last year. Roughly 21% of our visitors came from outside the U.S.
As of October 1st, our online archive contains 10,351 viewable pages, documents, images, and recordings, plus 397 videos in our Vimeo video channel.
Google reports that out on the global internet there are 30,856 backlinks to our site by people, organizations, and schools using us as an information resource.
Ever since we established the CRMA (formerly known as "CRMVet") in 1999, it has been almost entirely funded by personal donations from Freedom Movement veterans and individual supporters. We carry on this work with almost zero institutional support, foundation grants, or philanthropic contributions. So if you find our CRMA site useful and worthy, please click donate to keep us alive and growing. You can donate via check, your bank's Bill Pay service, or PayPal. Thank you for anything you are able to contribute.
SNCC Legacy Project (SLP). SLP preserves and extends 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 equality today.
SNCC Digital Gateway (SDG). A joint project of SLP and Duke University, SDG tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation.
Black Power Chronicles. The SNCC Legacy Project created the Black Power Chronicles (BPC) in 2015 to help fill the informational void that exists in our historical record about the impact of the Black Power Movement in local communities throughout America.
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.
SCOPE 50. Preserving Civil Rights and the Story of Voting. Website of SCLC/SCOPE project activists.
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.
Now streaming! From Protest to Power Podcasts. SNCC Legacy Project (SLP). The central theme of these visual podcasts is the ongoing effort of the Black community to achieve the power to define its existence in America.
Now Available! Unlawfully Incarcerated At Age Thirteen, by Emmarene Kaigler Streeter, 2024. The personal story of one of the 17 Black girls arrested in Americus, Georgia in July, 1963, jailed under horrific and deplorable conditionsand, and not released until September 13, 1963. Sometimes referred to as the "Stolen Girls of the Lee County Stockade." Available on Amazon.
SCOPE 60th Anniversary Reunion. March 6-9, 2025. Montgomery & Selma AL. Lodging in Montgomery. Day trip to Selma. Montgomery sites: Rosa Parks Museum, Freedom Riders Museum, First Baptist Church, SPLC Civil Rights Memorial; Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church, National Memorial for Peace and Justice (the Lynching Memorial) and Legacy Museum.
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 1950-1970. See Submissions details.
According to Google, our top-ten, most-visited sections and individual pages in September were:
Sections, Landing & Reference Pages
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote?—Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Site Search: Civil Rights Movement Archive
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Documents From the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Documents From the 1960s Sit-Ins
- Civil Rights Movement History 1950-1970
- Freedom Movement Photo Album
- About the Civil Rights Movement Archive
Individual Pages & Documents
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Voter Registration in Alabama Before the Voting Rights Act
- Background: Northern Defacto School Segregation, Bruce Hartford.
- Poem: Ain't I A Woman? Sojourner Truth
- Poems of Langston Hughes
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- CRM History: 1962 (COFO, Greenwood, Freedom Highways, Meredith at 'Ol Miss)
- Photo Album: Freedom Movement in Art
(Google does not count how often PDF files are accessed. Since most of our documents are in PDF format, the "Top Ten" lists are not all that accurate.)
Our CRMA Video Channel on the Vimeo hosting service provides videos created by Freedom Movement veterans (or their immediate families) and videos created by others that are substantially about Movement veterans. When you visit the channel, please consider adding yourself as a "follower" for social-media metrics. Thanks.
New videos posted in September:
James Armstrong, interviewed by Blackside. ACHMR, Birmingham, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. 1979. 8 min.
Unita Blackwell, interviewed by Blackside. SNCC & NAACP, Mississippi, MFDP, 1964 Democratic National Convention. 1986. 43min.
Unita Blackwell, interviewed by Blackside. MFDP, mayor of Mayersville, race relations in Mississippi. 1989. 32 min.
Myrlie Evers, interviewed by Blackside. Medgar Evers, Mississippi, Emmett Till, James Meredith, segregation. 1985. 81 min.
Frederick Leonard, interviewed by Blackside. Nashville Tennessee, CORE) Freedom Rider, Jackson MS, Parchman State Penitentiary. 1985. 15 min.
Robert Moses, interviewed by Blackside. SNCC, Mississipi, MFDP, Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner. 1986. 73 min.
Dr. B.J. Simms, interviewed by Blackside. Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1985. 15 min.
Dr. Barbara Williams Emerson, interview. CORE, SCLC, 1963-1972, Georgia, AL, NY, GA, Hosea Williams (father), 24min.
Rev. John Reynolds, interview. SCLC, 1965-71 AL, GA, MS, SC, 24min.
Peggy Ryan Poole, interview. SCOPE, 1965. VA, Atlanta GA. 25min.
Richard Smiley, SCLC, 1965-66 Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. 2018. 28 min.
Lanny Kaufer, SCLC/SCOPE, Sussex County, VA, voter registration. 2018. 28 min.
Jo Freeman, CORE 1963-64, SCLC 1965-66, SCOPE, SCLC staff, AL, MS GA, 1965-66. 2018. 23 min.
New Audio recordings added in September:
Benjamin Chavis Muhammad Interview by Kieran Taylor. 96min.
Jim Grant Oral-History Interview by Joshua Clark Davis. 204min.
1964 Letter to unnamed supporter, James Forman, SNCC. Re Hattiesburg and Black disenfranchisemen. 2/18/64. 2 pages. 1964 CORE Stall In & Protests at the New York World's Fair, April 22, 1964. CORE flyer. 1964 Union Embarks on Mississippi 'Freedom Schools' Project The United Teacher, UFT. April 23, 1964. 1964 Why It Is Important For Negroes to Vote, statements by Freedom School students. Undated summer 1964. 1964 Letter to Pres. Johnson re federal government and violence against Blacks in Mississippi. Harold Taylor for Panel of Citizens. 6/11/64. 1964 Letter to U.S. Civil Rights Commmission, re burning of Black Catholic church in Hattiesburg, MS. John Lewis, SNCC. 6/16/64 1964 Freedom School Attendance Sheet, Norma Becker, COFO/UFT. June 17, 1964. 1964 Press release re UFT teachers participating in Freedom Summer Unsigned, UFT. 7/10/64. 1964 Adopt a Mississippi Freedom School, unsigned AFT. Undated (probably Fall 1964). 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools, Norma Becker. The United Teacher, 11/23/64. ???? The Southern Tenant Farmers Union, H.L. Mitchell. Undated SSOC reprint, probably 1960s. (8-page pamphlet) 1965 SCLC/SCOPE Convention registration forms, Birmingham AL, August 1965. (163 documents) 1965 New "Holiday Cards" From CORE, fundraising promotion. October 1965. 1965 Statement on November elections, James Farmer CORE. November 5, 1965 1966 A Brief History of Duke Employees Local 77, AFSCME AFL/CIO. Peter Brandon & Nancy Park, SSOC. 9 pages. 1967 Black Power and the Third World, Stokely Carmichael, SNCC. OLAS meetin Havana Cuba, summer 1967. SSOC reprint. 13 pages. 1969 Freedom Movement for Girls—Now! Vanauken, SSOC. Undated, presumed January 1969. (10 page pamphlet) 1969 The 'War on Poverty:' This Is War?, Rob Burlage, SSOC. Undated 1969. Application Forms & Personnel Files
1964 Cathrine Patterson, questionnaire 1964 Jeffrey Schwartz, questionnaire 1964 Ronnie Sigal, questionnaire 1964 James Tredinnick, questionnaire 1964 Thomas Valentine, information sheet 1964 Jan Van Maire, questionnaire 1964 Bob Weaver, questionnaire 1964 Janet Weiner, questionnaire 1964 Joseph Weiner, questionnaire 1964 William Yates, questionnaire Summer Volunteer Parents-Related Documents
4/8/65 Minutes, Parents Mississippi Freedom Association (Los Angeles), by Dorothy Hunn 7/30/65 Minutes, Parents Mississippi Freedom Association (Los Angeles), by Dorothy Hunn 10/23/65 Minutes, Parents Mississippi Freedom Association (Los Angeles), unsigned 11/15/65 Minutes, Parents Mississippi Freedom Association (Los Angeles), by Dorothy Hunn 7/13/66 Petition cover letter Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee (Los Angeles), by Richard Wilson 9/22/66 Minutes, Parents Mississippi Freedom Association (Los Angeles), by Dorothy Hunn WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
SNCC March 2, 1964. Natchez MS, Jackson MS, Selma AL,
SNCC March 4, 1964. Canton MS arrests
SNCC March 4, 1964. Canton MS arrests, Natchez MS
SNCC March 5, 1964. Chapel Hill NC, Jackson MS
SNCC March 9, 1964. Hattiesburg, Jackson, Greenville MS
SNCC March 9, 1964. Hattiesburg, Indianola trials, Greenwood court cases MS, Heart of Atlanta cases.
Vietnam War & Military Draft Documents
1965? The War in Vietnam, historical background to the war. Multiple authors. May 2 1965?. 6 documents plus bibliography 1967 Report, Committee to Defend the Rights of Pfc. Howard Petrick. 7/3/67. Re soldier facing court martial for speaking against the Vietnam War 1969 Vietnam: A Thousand Years of Struggle. Terry Cannon, People's Press pamphlet on Vietnam's history of struggle for independence. 1969. 52 pages. 1970 Return to Fort Dix flyer. Fort Dix Coffeehouse, Philadelphia Resistance Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
5/64 CFM C.F.M. Reports, newsletter of Committee For Miners (Appalachia) 6 pages. 12/66 UCB UC Berkeley Student Strike, December 1966. 10 documents 5/27/65 SSOC Memo to Lucy Montgomery re support for SSOC. William Karp 10/65 CORE Campus CORE-Lator, newsletter. UC Berkeley CORE. 27 pages 67? 68? SFBP Pre-Trial Release Criteria worksheet, San Francisco Bail Project. Undated (probably late 1967-1968) 2/67 ACOA Rhodesia fact sheet (today Zimbabwe). American Committee on Africa (ACOA). 4 pages Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Documents
8/66 Toward a Student Syndicalist Movement or University Reform Revisted. Carl Davidson, SDS. SSOC reprint. August 1966 SDS Convention San Francisco State College Student Activism Documents (1966-1969)
Misc. SFSC political activism, Fall 1968. (4 documents)
International Industrial Conference protests, September 1969. (7 documents)
1965 Judy Richardson & others SNCC residential freedom school progran reports & letters (19 documents) 8/66 Unsigned, MCC Mississippi Recommendations. Undated (probably August or September 1966) 8/31/66 Edgar Stoesz, MCC Mississippi-Mexico trip itinerary & plan 9/66 Bruce Hartford, SCLC Dear Kahns, letter describing the Grenada MS movement. 5 pages. 9/16/66 Edgar Stoesz, MCC Mississippi-Mexico Trip Diary. 4 pages. 9/26/66 Herber Biberman, filmmaker Letter to Bruce Hartford re the film Salt of the Earth 9/30/66 Edgar Stoesz, MCC Mississippi Trip Report. 6 pages. 10/9/66 Bruce Hartford, SCLC Letter to Representative George Brown (D-CA) regarding Grenada Mississippi movement and federal government failures.
James Armstrong Interview for Eyes on the Prize. ACHMR, Birmingham, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. 1979. 5 pages Unita Blackwell Interview for Eyes on the Prize. MFDP, mayor of Mayersville, race relations in Mississippi. 1989. 13 pages Jim Grant Oral History Interview, by Joshua Clark Davis. Re North Carolina SCEF, Charlotte Three. 2014. 88 pages. Frederick Leonard Interview for Eyes on the Prize. Nashville Tennessee, CORE Freedom Rider, Jackson MS, Parchman State Penitentiary. 1985. 8 pages Bill Minter Mississippi Story Dr. B.J. Sims Interview for Eyes on the Prize. Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1985. 6 pages
SCLC: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, history of
SNCC: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, history of
No new names added to the Roll Call this month
No new memories or tributes added this month
No new answers added this month.
Poems of Mike Quinn (Paul William Ryan), (1906-1947)
They Shall Not Die! (Scottsboro Boys)
These Are the Classwar Dead (S.F. General Strike, 1934)
He Said Fight
The Man in the Rain
Three Percent Own All the Wealth
Graduation Greetings
How Much for Spain? (Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Why Down't You Laugh? (Nazi Germany)
Newsie
Little Boy Blue
Freedom Movement Art, Bits Hayden 1934 Strike Collection
Unlawfully Incarcerated At Age Thirteen, by Emmarene Kaigler Streeter, 2024. Personal story of one the "Stolen Girls of the Lee County Stockade arrested in Americus GA, and imprisoned in 1963.
Marching in Montgomery, by John J. Hartman. IPBooks. 2024. First-hand account by a participant of the March 1965 voting rights protests in Montgomery Alabama in support of the movement in Selma AL.
Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family, by Faith Holsaert. Memoir of NYC childhood, SNCC in Southwest Georgia, and raising her own children in the coalfields of West Virginia.
The Rise and Fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, by Martin Oppenheimer. Native Publishers, 2024. Concise history including the historical antecedents, the Greensboro sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the violence of KKK and police, and its demise around 1973.
Love Letter from Pig: My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer, by Julie Kabat. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Based on primary-source materials, the personal story of volunteer Luke Kabat and the Meridian MS (Lauderdale Co.) project.
No Ordinary Joe: Lesson From a Life of Community Organizing for Social Change, by Jerome Christensen. Wordshop at Fourth & Sioux, September 2023. Life of Civil Rights Movement activist and community organizer Joe Morse.
Standing, by Ernest McMillan. August, 2023.
My Country Is the World: Staughton Lynd's Writings, Speeches, and Statements against the Vietnam War, edited by Luke Smith. Foreword by Staughton and Alice Lynd. Haymarket Books, 2023.
The Struggle of Struggles, by Vera Pigee (1924-2007), edited by Frangoise Hamlin, University Press of Mississippi. 2023. New edition of Vera Pigee autobiography chronicles Coahoma County MS, NAACP, Women's leadership, grassroots organizing, citizenship schools, voter registration, and the Baptist church.
A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi, by Joe Bateman, Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, and Richard Arvedon. How the civil rights movement unfolded in a small rural town, far from the cameras.
Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey, by Dan Berger, Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons. An authorized biography of Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons that brings into focus the lives of two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom. Basic Books, January 2023.
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, by Margaret Burnham, 2023. Investigation of Jim Crow-era racial violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, by Sam Pollard & Geeta Gandbhir, Multitude Films in association with The Atlantic. Story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County Alabama. 2022. 90min.
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 in to us.
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