CRMA
Civil Rights Movement Archive
Monthly Newsletter
September 1st, 2026
Table of Contents
Website Report
Our Sister Sites
Announcements
Top Ten Most Viewed
New CRMA Video & Audio
New Resource Pages
New Movement Documents
New Letters & Reports
New Stories & Narratives
New Articles & Speeches
New History Articles
New Thoughts & Commentaries
New Discussions
Activist Roll Call, New Names
In Memory, New Tributes
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), New Answers
New Poems
New Photos, Art, & Posters
Recent Books
Recent Films/Videos
Since its founding in 1999, the mission of this Civil Rights Movement Archive
(CRMA), has been to make original, primary-source materials, analyses, and
commentaries, about our movement freely available to the public from the
inside-out, up-from-below, and "lives-lived," point of view of
those whose boots were on the ground as participants. Doing so has always been
an up-hill battle against the "Master Narrative" perspective that is so often found in
mass media and school text books. A narrative that essentially portrays the
Civil Rights Movement to which we dedicated our lives as a top-down effort to
persuade gracious political leaders to recognize a problem and solve it on our
behalf.
As described more fully in Defending Our History In the AI Age, we now face new
obstacles and threats to our purpose. First from MAGA-dominated government
agencies who are using state power to suppress dissenters, and second from
ever-increasing AI domination of the global infosphere — the
environment of digitized data, communication-networks, mass and social-media,
and information services, that collectivelly shape our society, culture, and
politics.
To meet this challenge, the
SNCC Legacy
Project (SLP), CRMA, and a number of other organizations that share our
up from below and popular social-change viewpoint are coalescing
around the Movement History Initiative (MHI).
With AI search and packaged AI answers increasingly emphasizing mainstream
information sources and marginalizing alternate points of view like ours,
we need your help promoting views of history, society, and
social-justice struggles that challenge the establishment orthodoxy. With the
new academic year commencing this month, we hope that students will seek out,
use, and share with their peers, information sources like CRMA, MHI, and those
listed below in our Our Sister Sites section. We also
ask professors and teachers to encourage their students to do the same and to
include alternative sources in their course syllabi and recommended-reading
lists.
Website Report
As of September 1st, our online archive contained 12,160 viewable pages,
documents, images, and recordings, 513 videos in our Vimeo video channel, and
listings for 697 Freedom Movement veterans.
According to Google, there were 88,086 visits to the CRMA website during
August for an average of 2841 per day. This is far more than August of last
year. However, it appears that the great majority of those visits were from
China, a trend that began in August of last year may well be some artifact of
AI development or testing rather than any sudden spike in people seeking our
content.
Google reports that out on the global internet there are 31,040 backlinks to
materials on our site by people, organizations, schools, and colleges using us
as a trusted information resource.
If we omit the unexplained spike in traffic from China (and Singapore) roughly
32% of our visitors in August came from outside the U.S — but
given the confusion that is a guesstimate. However, on average over the course
of a year, international visitors used to comprise 15%-20% of our users and
that now seems to be higher. In any case, We are proud that our Freedom
Movement of the 1960s is still of interest to people around the world and that
our site still stands as a free, publicly-available, un-censored international
information resource.
Please Donate.
With a Little Help From Our Friends,
We'll keep on keeping on.
Ever since we established the CRMA (originally 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.
Our Sister Sites
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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. |
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Movement History Initiative.
A collaborative effort by multiple organizations to build an integrated platform for preserving — and continuing to make freely available to the public — the history, thoughts, stories,
strategies, images, videos, and materials of up-from-below peoples' struggles for freedom, justice, and equality. It is being created by veterans of the 1960s Freedom Movement and modern-era, grassroots social-
justice activists in Black communities who share their lives-lived experiences from the inside-out to combat distortions, false-narratives and censorship. And to provide momentum for movement building
today. |
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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. |
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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. |
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SCOPE 50. Preserving Civil Rights and the Story of Voting. Website of SCLC/SCOPE project activists. |
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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. |
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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. |
Announcements
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.
SNCC: The New Abolitionists, new 3rd Edition with new
commentaries by Anthony Arnove and Barbara Ransby. Available from
Hayarket
Books.
Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to
Black Power and Beyond, by Millicent Brown. South Carolina, school
desegregation, Black freedom struggle. University of South Carolina Press.
2024. Memoir on the struggle for civil rights.
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.
Top Ten Most Viewed
According to Google, here are the top-ten, most-visited sections and
individual pages in August.
(Note that 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.)
Sections, Landing & Reference Pages
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- Movement History 1950-1970
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Our Stories & Interviews
- In Our Memories They Live Forever
- Freedom Movement Videos
- About the Civil Rights Movement Archive
- Roll Call of Freedom Movement Veterans
- Civil Rights Movement Web Links
- Documents: Selma Alabama and the March to Montgomery 1963-1965
Individual Pages & Documents
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Strike Demands, San Francisco State College. 1968
- BSU/TWLF/AFT Strike Chronology, San Francisco State College. 1968-69
- Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Ella Baker Oral History, 1968
- Movement History: 1966 Jan-June (Vietnam, Greenville AFB Occupation, Lowndes Co, Meredith March)
- Photo Album: The Children's Crusade: Birmingham (1963)
- Poem: Ain't I A Woman? Sojourner Truth
- Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
Top Ten Sections & Pages That Others on the Internet Link To
- CRMA Home Page
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote?—Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Public Opinion Polls on Civil Rights Movement activities, 1961-1969
- Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story Comic Book. (FOR)
- Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence , Dr. Martin Luther King. (April 4, 1967)
- Speech to Anti-War Protest, Dr. Martin Luther King. (April 15, 1967)
- Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
- Final Plans for the March on Washington, 1963
| 1964 | Memo: Re disappearance of Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman. Unsigned COFO. 6/22/64 |
| 6/25/64 | Freedom Summer Car assignments, Oxford OH training to
Laurel MS by way of Hattiesburg. |
| 1964 | COFO Contacts With Neshoba County Law Enforcement Officers, unsigned COFO. Regarding the disappearance of Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman |
| 6/26/64 | Freedom Summer COFO Contacts With Neshoba County Law Enforcement Officers in the Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman Case. Unsigned COFO. 2 pages. |
| 6/26 | Freedom Summer Philadelphia Mississippi Case Chronology of Contacts With Agents of the Federal Government, June 21-June 26, 1964. COFO. |
| 1964 | Petition to President Johnson re protecting civil rights activists in Mississippi. COFO. Undated, probably late June or early July. |
| 1965 | SNCC Executive Committee notes March 6, 1965. (First page missing) 3 pages. |
| 1965 | Agenda: COFO Statewide Staff Meeting, April 5-7, 1965. 2 pages |
| 1965 | Suggested Topics for 5th District Program Planning Meeting, COFO. April 8, 1965. |
| 1965 | SNCC Executive Committee agenda. April 12, 1965. 2 pages. |
| 1966 | The United States and South Africa research report. SNCC. Undated (probably 1966). =4 pages. |
| 1966 | Statement From Atlanta Office on arrest of Stokeley Carmichael and Mayor Ivan Allen in Atlanta GA. Undated 1966 |
| 1966 | Policy regarding media requests, Stokley Carmichael, SNCC. Undated (probably later half of 1966) |
| 1966 | Memo: Communications and News Gathering. Charlie Cobb, SNCC. 7/7/66. |
| 1966 | Policy memo regarding dealings with the media. Unsigned SNCC Communications Department. Issued in context of media controversies over Black Power and political divisions withint the movement and SNCC. 7/18/66 |
| 1966 | Field Report — Little Rock, Howard Himmelbaum & Mitchell Zimmerman, SNCC. 7/22/66 |
| 1966 | Ousted Chairman Tells of New Setup in SNCC, Reprint of L.A. Times article by Jack Nelson. 7/29/66. 2 pages |
| 1966 | Report of the Communications Section of the Atlanta Office. Unsigned SNCC. 8/1/66. 3 pages. |
COFO/MFDP Newsletters
Live With Lyndon in the Great Society, SNCC
| Number 16, May 20, 1965. Surplus food to South Africa and the Congo for diamonds and uranium but no foor Selma Blacks fired for trying to register to vote. Giving a legal pass to white racist political leaders and killers. Imperialism and "Pax Americana." Birth-control, population-control, and corporate profit. 6 pages. |
| Number 17, May 27, 1965. Coroporate roots of U.S. invasion of Dominican Republic. Dorporate corruption and influence on public life. %ear-gas uses and users. U.S. foreign aid for the benefit of American corporations. Arming the White Citizens Council. Choosing not to enforce the Civil Rights Act. Hubert Humphrey. 6 pages. |
| Number 18, June 3, 1965. U.S. foreign aid for the benefit of American corporations.Arming the White Citizens Council, Not enforcing the Civil Rights Act. Hubert Humphrey. 6 pages. |
| Number 27, August 5, 1965. Vietnam War and Johnson's "Peace Offensive" and military policy. Torture of military prisoners by the South Vietnamese. Corporate investments in Columbia subsidized by American taxpayers. Whitewashing southern school segregatioh. Medicare taxes and payments. 5 pages. |
| Number 28, August 12 1965. Voting Rights Act, Poverty programs and Catholic Church. Income level of poverty program officials. Corporate war profits. U.S. nuclear power for South Africa. South Africa book on how to treat bantu servants. 6 pages. |
| Number 29, August 19, 1965. Watts uprising. Chemical warfare in Vietnam. Treatment of enemy prisoners in Vietnam. Poverty and social consequences in Vietnam of the war. 7 pages. |
WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
COFO July 26, Tchula, Mileston, Natchez, MS, Pine Bluff AR. 1964
COFO July 27, 1964 . Greenwood MS mob attack and shooting against Silas and Jake McGhee at movie theater
COFO July 31, 1964 . Greenwood, McComb, Drew MS. Washington DC.
SNCC WATS-digest July 25-July 31. 1964. Mississippi, Alabamla, Georgia, Arkansas. 7 pages.
Freedom Information Service (FIS) Newsletters
May 26, 1967
November 3, 1967
November 11,
1967
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
| June | Hello, letter from Oxford training session. Tom Watts, COFO volunteer. |
| 6/24 | Dear Tom, note from father to his son Tom. Raymond Watts. |
| 6/24 | Dr. Mr. & Mrs. Watts, letter from Senator Douglas (D-IL) to parents of summer volunteer Tom Watts in Laurel MS. |
| 6/25 | Dear Wattes, letter from Oxford training. Tom Watts, COFO volunteer. |
| 6/26 | Tuesday Night: Dear Wattses, letter from Tom Watts to family from Laurel MS. |
| 6/30 | Dear Jo, letter from Louris to JoAnn Ooiman? in Canton MS |
| 7/2/64 | Letter Louis Lehman to JoAnn Ooiman, responding to situation in Canton MS |
| 7/6/64 | Support letter from Sydney Finley, NAACP to JoAnne Ooiman, Canton MS |
| 7/12/64 | Letter to Galesburg Register-Mail contesting their Freedom Summer editorial from Gordon Dobbs, Douglas Wilson of Knox College. 2 pages. |
| 7/15 | Three letters about phone calls to Mississippi being blocked, Raymond Watts (parent) of Laurel volunteer |
| 7/22 | Wednesday Night: Dear Wattses, note from Tom Watts to family from Laurel MS. |
| 7/17/64 | Galesburg IL NAACP newsletter reporting on Canton MS. 2 pages |
| No new stories added this month. |
Defending Our History In the AI Age, Bruce Hartford
Jerome Smith
No new answers added this month.
C. Liegh McInnis: SNCC's Southern Echo (For Mike Sayer)
March to Montgomery
Before I'll Be a Slave...
Freedom Movement Art, Special Collections
Recent Books by or About Movement Veterans:
SNCC: The New
Abolitionists, New 3rd Edition with new commentaries by Anthony Arnove
and Barbara Ransby. Available from Hayarket Books.
Another Sojourner Looking
for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond, by
Millicent Brown. South Carolina, school desegregation, Black freedom struggle.
University of South Carolina Press. 2024. Memoir on the struggle for civil
rights.
Civil Rights Warrior: A Life
on the Front Lines of Justice, Equality, and the American Dream, by
Evelyn (Evie) Jones Rich. Skyhorse. 2026. Autobiography of CORE activist and
leader.
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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