According to Google, roughly 22,550 people visited the CRMA website during
October for an average of 727 per day. This is roughly 9% more than October of
2019 and 6% less than October of 2020. Given how the pandemic has had varied
impacts on schools and remote education it's hard to derive any general trend
for those numbers. Roughly 27% of our visitors came from outside the U.S, an
unusually high number.
— Bruce Hartford, Webspinner.
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.
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.
My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil
Rights Movement, by Gwendolyn (Gwen) Patton. NewSouth Books, 2020.
Autobiography & Movement memoir by a long-term stalwart of the Freedom
Movement — Montgomery Bus Boycott & Montgomery Improvement
Association, student sit-ins, Freedom Rides, student activism at Tuskegee,
voter-registration and rural organizing, Selma and the March to Montgomery.
Year Forever in my Veins, by Faith
Holsaert. Backbone Press, 2020. Chapbook of poems growing out of letters home
to mother and sister during year working with SNCC in Southwest Georgia.
Our Sixties,
by Freedom Movement veteran Paul Lauter. University of Rochester Press, 2020.
Examination of the values, exploits, victories, implications, and failings, of
the "Movement" in the 1960s. Includes chapters about Freedom Summer of 1964,
Natchez in the summer of 1965, and a community school in DC, 1966.
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country ~ The Benton County Civil Rights
Movement, by Roy DeBerry, Aviva Futorian, Stephen Klein, and John
Lyons. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. History of the Benton movement
and personal narratives of local Freedom Movement participants.
A Small Town Rises: A Sharecropper and a College Girl Join the Struggle for
Justice in Shaw, Mississippi, by Lee Anna Sherman with Movement
veterans Eddie Short and recent college grad Mary Sue Gellatly. Bog Lily
Press, 2020. Chronicles the lives of two civil rights activists who met in the
tiny cotton-town of Shaw during Freedom Summer and joined forces with local
black activist Andrew Hawkins and a host of courageous townspeople to
challenge and disrupt the status quo in the heart of the Mississippi Delta.
Tip of the Arrow: the Selma Student Nonviolent Movement, a Study in
Leadership, by Charles Bonner. Page Publishing, 2020. An
"up-from-below" and "inside-out" examination of, and personal
narratives by, the young students of Selma Alabama who from 1963 to 1965 were
the tip of the nonviolent arrow in the fight for freedom and equality. Charles
Bonner, the author, was one of the main student leaders and then a SNCC field
secretary. Today he is one of the boldest civil rights attorneys in
California.
Race Man: Selected Works,
1960-2015, by Julian Bond. City Lights Publishers; 2020).
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.
