Civil Rights Movement Archive (CRMA)
New & Announcements
January 1st, 2022
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According to Google, 17,567 people visited the CRMA website during December
for an average of 567 per day. This is roughly 7% less than December of last
year when almost all schools were on remote-learning due to the pandemic.
Roughly 16% of our visitors came from outside the U.S.
67 new items — photos, documents, stories, articles,
commentaries, discussions, and other resources were added to the CRMA website
in December. Our site now provides over 8000 pages and 5000 searchable URLs
(excluding photos and images).
Our top-five, most visited pages in December were:
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote? — Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- What were the failures of the Civil Rights Movement? (FAQ)
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Civil Rights Movement History: 1960
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Our 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.
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.
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.
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
Kidney donor needed! Dr. Shirley Green-Reese is a civil rights activist
and pioneer and one of the fourteen 1963 Leesburg Stockade Girls who were held
in a stockade building in Lee County, Georgia for 60 days during the Movement
in Americus, Georgia. She is aggressively advertising for a kidney donor. Click here for more
information.
Now Available:
FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical audio recording in MP3
format, by Richard Allen and Taran Gray is now out on Broadway Records and New
York Theater Barn Records.
Now Available: Memoirs Of A Revolution Experience Through Poetry And
Poems, by Lulu Westbrook Griffin. Page Publishing Co, 2022. The
personal story of a young activist in Southwest Georgia during the height of
1960s Freedom Movement who was held for 45 days in the infamous Leesburg
stockade.
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. See Submissions details.
| 1964 | Newsletter exchange with FoS, Unsigned SCEF, November 14, 1964 |
| 1964 | Gift subscription to FoS of Southern Patriot, James Dombrowski, , SCEF. November 16, 1964 |
| 1965 | Formal objection to the seating of white congressmen from Mississippi re the Congressional Challenge. Ryan and Roosevelt, Congressional Record |
| 1965 | Old age assistance denied Bolivar Co. MS Department of Welfare. January 8, 1965 |
| 1965 | Mississippi electoral calendar, 1965-1968, Unsigned, MFDP |
| 1965 | Rebuttal to claim that MFDP Congressional Challenge hearings are illegal, Lawrence Guyot, MFDP. Undated (probably March 1965) |
| 1965 | Congressional Challenge Testimony, Victoria Gray, MFDP. March 25, 1965 |
| 1965 | Congressional Challenge Progress Report, Unsigned, MFDP. March 25, 1965 |
| 1966 | Emergency Bulletin #1 SNCC Opposition to the War in Vietnam, Press Response, and Julian Bond and Bulletin #2 Murder of Samuel Young and the Tuskegee Situation. Unsigned, SNCC. 1/8/66 |
| 1967 | George Wallace research report, Jerry DeMuth, SNCC. 1967 |
Personnel Files
Summer Volunteer Parents-Related Documents
| 1964 | Bail Fund Information, Richard Wilson and Evelyn Carstens. Parents. Undated July 1964 |
| 1964 | Statement: Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee (Los Angeles), unsigned PMEC. July 1964 |
| 1964 | Report re Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee (L.A.) report, Dorothy Hunn, PMEC. July 2, 1964 |
| 1964 | Newsletter No. 1, Parents Mississippi Emergency Committee (L.A.). July 3, 1964 |
| 1964 | Meet the Mississippi Freedom Project Summer Volunteers flyer, unsigned PMEC (L.A.). 9/2/64 |
| 1965 | Letter to parents of Mississippi volunteers opposing nomination of James Colman to the federal court, Harold Light, Parents Mississippi Association (NorCal). June 23rd, 1965 |
WATS Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
Press Releases
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
| 1963 | FoS | Hoadley's Test Case in Indiana, by Jay Neugeboren (New Republic) reprinted by Friends of SNCC(?). Undated 1963 |
| 63? 64? | FoS | Friends of SNCC Constitution and By-Laws, Madison WI. Undated (probably 1963 or 1964) |
| 1963? | FoS | Committee to Abolish HUAC, memo/plan by Friends of SNCC (FoS). Undated (possibly fall of 1963) |
| 11/18/64 | FoS | Memo to FoS from Dominican Sisters, re film and volunteers |
| 12/64 | OACCR | Carpenters for Christmas: We Need Your Help, appeal for funds and assistance rebuilding bombed churches in Mississippi. Marcia Aronoff, Oberlin Action Committee for Civil Rights |
| 2/1/65 | FoS | Memo re Congressional Challenge petition drive, Dottie Zellner, Joan Reischauer, MA FoS |
| 3/4/65 | FoS | Off-campus speaker permission registration forms for: Rev. James Bevel, Jim Collier, and Pete Seeger. Madison FoS. |
| 1965 | FoS | To the Justice Department and U.S. Congress, sign-on letter demanding civil rights enforcement in Alabama. Madison FoS. Undated (probably Spring 1965). |
| 2/22/64 | Andrew Green CORE/COFO | Report of Andrew Lee Green on Camden, (Madison Co. MS) |
| 4/25/64 | Unsigned CORE | Food & clothing report, (Madison Co. MS) |
| 4/28/64 | Unsigned CORE/COFO | Canton Project Report 2/28 - 4/28, (Madison Co. MS) |
| 8/64 | Unsigned, COFO (Biloxi) | Biloxi Report, undated (probably August '64) (MS) |
| 8/64 | Unsigned, COFO (Canton) | List of Arrests in Canton MS July 21-Aug 12 |
| 8/64 | Robert P. Watkins, COFO (Canton) | Law Student's Report, Canton MS |
| 8/64 | Unsigned, COFO (Columbus) | A freedom worker's description of venturing into downtown Columbus MS |
| 8/64 | Unsigned, COFO | Valley View MS Report |
New Ministers Project Evaluation Forms From Hattiesburg
Affidavits of Repression, Retaliation & Violence
| 1964 | Affidavit of Knights, Arsdale, Ellis, and Hall, re voting registration test failed due to error on forms, 8/1964. Clarksdale. |
| 1964 | Statment of COFO activists, re obstacles in obtaining mass meeting permit, 8/03/64. Pascagoula. |
| 1964 | Affidavit of Rueben Brown, re arrest of COFO workers by police, 8/05/64. Ocean Springs |
| 1964 | Affidavit of Laurice Walker, re rejection of voter application, 8/10/64. Clarksdale |
| 1964 | Affidavit of Hattie Mae Williams, re voter registration refusal, 8/11/64. Clarksdale |
| 1964 | Three affidavits from people fired for trying to register to vote, July & August. Sunflower Co. |
| 1964 | Affidavit of Russell Allen, re harrassment, threats, and violence against voter registration worker, 8/15/64. Greenville |
| 1964 | Affidavit Alan Verson, re police harrassment in Ocean Springs. 8/31/64 |
| SCLC & Me (Taliaferro Co. GA movement) | Terry V. Howard |
| 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. |
Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
New Additions to the Photo Album Pages:
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Earest Swann Interview, by Carole Merritt (SOHP). Re integrating a white high school in Atlanta. 57 min, 2006. |
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James Armstrong Interview, by Kimberly Hill (SOHP). Re school integration and the movement in Birmingham AL 17 min, 2004. |
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Wille Blue Interview, by Interview by Max Krochmal (SOHP). Re SNCC and the movement in MS. 40 min, 2010. |
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Penny Patch Interview, David Kline (SOHP). Re SNCC in GA & MS. 1963-1965. 58 min, 2010. |
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Sue Thrasher Interview, by Jessie Wilkerson (SOHP). Re SSOC and activism. 56 min, 2010. |
Rick Tuttle Interview, by David Cline (SOHP). Re SNCC and the movement in GA & MS 32 min, 2010. |
RECENT BOOKS by Movement Veterans:
Memoirs Of A Revolution Experience Through Poetry And Poems, by Lulu
Westbrook Griffin. Page Publishing Co, 2022. The personal story of a young
activist in Southwest Georgia during the height of 1960s Freedom Movement who
was held for 45 days in the infamous Leesburg stockade.
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil
Rights Movement (New Reprint). By Susan Erenrich (ed). New South Books,
2021. Large compilation of valuable original source material on Civil Rights
Movement.
Run: Book One, by John
Lewis and Andrew Aydin. Sequel to the March triology. "First you march, then you
run." Graphic-novel format memoir by John Lewis recounting the Freedom
Movement after passage of the Voting Rights Act — including
the pushback of those who resist social change and refuse to accept racial
equality and justice, and the continuing struggles of those who believe change
has not gone far enough.
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir
of a Freedom Rider, by Charles Person. Gripping personal narrative by
the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Rider who endured the racist violence
in Alabama.
It's in the Action:
Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, by C.T. Vivian with Steve Fiffer.
NewSouth Books, 2021. Personal memoir and observations by one of the key
central figures in the Freedom Movement. From student sit-ins to the Freedom
Rides to the battles for voting rights and a fair share of political and
economic power, C.T. Vivian was on the ground in the action.
Fire at the Freedom
House, by Matt Rinaldi. 2021. Personal memoir of a white activist
working Attala County, Mississippi, in 1966 under the organizing direction of
the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) led by Lawrence Guyot and Mrs.
Fannie Lou Hamer.
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.
RECENT FILMS & VIDEOS By or About Movement Veterans:
Son of the South
a film based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek. 2021. 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.
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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