CRMA
Civil Rights Movement Archive
Monthly Newsletter
October 1st, 2026
Table of Contents
Website Report
Announcements
Our Sister Sites
Top Ten Most Viewed
New CRMA Video & Audio
New Movement Documents
New Letters & Reports
New Stories & Narratives
New Thoughts & Commentaries
New Discussions
In Memory, New Tributes
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
New Poems
New Photos, Art, & Posters
Recent Books
Website Report
As of October 1st, our online archive contained 12,231 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 29,162 visits to the CRMA website during
September for an average of 972 per day. This is approximately 31% more than
September of last year. Google reports that out on the global internet there
are 22,317 backlinks to materials on our site by people, organizations,
schools, and colleges using us as a trusted information resource.
Roughly 49% of our visitors in September came from outside the U.S. On average
over the course of a year, international visitors used to comprise 15%-20% of
our users. But ever since August of last year, there has been a noticable
increase in traffic from Chine, Vietnam, and Singapore. In September, the
traffic from China dropped noticably from recent months, but overall our
amount of international traffic remains high. It's possible that this
international surge is related to AI development and
testing — but that is just speculation. Regardless, 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
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You can donate via check, your bank's Bill Pay service, or
PayPal. Thank you for anything you are able to contribute.
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.
Eyes Have Seen: From Mississippi to
Montreal, by Fred Anderson, 2025. Hattiesburg MS, SNCC MS, AL, GA.
Anti-Vietnam War movement & draft-resistance.
Black Power, White Heat:
From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic, by Alice Echols. Re-examines
collaborations in the freedom movement between Black and white activists
through focusing on two groups that bookcase the era: SNCC and the Black
Panther Party.
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.
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. |
Top Ten Most Viewed
According to Google, here are the top-ten, most-visited sections and
individual pages in September.
(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
- Movement History 1950-1970
- MLK Speeched & Writings,
- Freedom Movement Photo Album
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Original Movement Documents by Organization
- Reports & Letters From the Field
- New! CRMA Newsletter for September
- Our Words, Articles & Speeches
- Our Stories & Interviews
Individual Pages & Documents
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Poem: Ain't I A Woman? Sojourner Truth
- Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Strike Demands, San Francisco State College. 1968
- Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence , Dr. Martin Luther King. (April 4, 1967)
- John Lewis March on Washington Speech — original draft
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
- We Charge Genocide: Crimes of Government Against the Negro People, 1951
- 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)
- Speech to Anti-War Protest, Dr. Martin Luther King. (April 15, 1967)
- Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence , Dr. Martin Luther King. (April 4, 1967)
- Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- Movement History: 1963 July-Dec (Mass Protests, March on Washington JFK assassination)
- Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
New Audio recordings added in September
Royal Ice Cream Parlor Sit-In of 1957, panel dissussion. Durham Civil Rights Heritage Project. 2007.
Audio 1
Audio 2.
Charles Leslie, 2004. 22min.
Beulah Mason. 2004. 28 min.
Faye Bryant Mayo. 2003. 47 min.
Anne C. Smith. 2003. 27 min
| 1960 | Don't Buy at.... Raleigh SC sit-in flyer. Undated (probably early 1960). |
| 1960 | Personal Account of Sit-In at Sprayberry Careteria, Atlanta GA. Unsigned COAHR/ASM. 3/15/60. 3 pages |
| 1960 | Student Movement and You, #3. Sit-in & boycott flyer. COAHR/ASM. Undated July 1960. 2 pages. |
| 1960 | Student Movement and You, #5. Don't Shop at A&P. Sit-in & boycott flyer. COAHR/ASM. Undated July 1960. 2 pages. |
| 1960 | Student Movement and You, #6. Don't Shop at Rich's. Sit-in & boycott flyer. COAHR/ASM. Undated July 14, 1960. |
| 1960 | Don't Shop at A&P, Boycott flyer. COAHR/ASM. 8/14/60. |
| 1961 | Lawsuit against segregation in Atlanta, COAHR/ASM. 5/16/61. 8 pages. |
| 1965 | Summer Project Direction, Unsigned CORE. Memo summarizing Louisiana summer project with overview and budget. 7 pages. |
| 1965 | SNCC Executive Committee, Summary of July 12 1965 meeting. Nancy Stoller, SNCC. 7/2/65. 2 pages. |
| 1965 | SNCC Executive Committee Agenda & Notes, Unsigned SNCC. August 23-15, 1965. 8 pages. |
| 1965 | Proposal for Regional SNCC Campus Coordinators, submitted to SNCC ExCom. 8/23/65. 7 pages. |
| 1966 | Lowndes County Alabama -- 1960 Cenus on Housing (handwritten notes). Unsigned (possibly by SNCC research department). Undated (probably 1966). 7 pages. |
| 1966 | Proposal for a Voter Registration Drive in Sunflower County MS. Joe Harris, SNCC? COFO? Undated (possibly 1966) |
| 1966 | Proposal for Financial Assistance to Southern Negro Students Engaged in Organizing in Alabama for SNCC. Shirley Wright, SNCC. Undated 1966. 2 pages. |
| 1966 | Dear Friends. Unsigned SNCC fund raising letter. Undated (probably early part of 1966) |
| 1966 | Poor Peoples Corporation press clips. Undated 1966. 2 pages. |
| 1967 | Letter to supporters re demise of Life With Lyndon and continuation of SNCC research. Bill Mahonney, Charlie Cobb, Julius Lester, Freed Neely, SNCC. March 1967. (See Life With Lyndon in the Great Society for more information.) |
| 1969 | Southern Populism. Norman Pollack, SSOC. Analysis. 9 pages. |
| 1976 | Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans. COINTELPRO. U.S, Senate.
Church Committee Report–Domestic, 404 pages.
Church Committee Report–Domestic: Detailed Reports, 996 pages pages. |
NEW Section: Police Surveillance & Repression
Life With Lyndon in the Great Society, SNCC
| Number 19, June 10, 1965. The White House conference, killing of O'Neal Moore, the FBI on TV, South African & American corporations. 6 pages. |
| Number 20, June 17. 1965. Evans & Novak, FDA corruption, foreign aid Dominican Republic and union-busting in Argentina, federal services financial corruption. 5 pages. |
| Number 21, June 24, 1965. Mississippi Governor Colman appointment to 5th Circut, trade with South Africa. 6 pages. |
| Number 22, July 1, 1965. Ed Clark ambassdor to Australia and oil, Bobby Baker & LBJ, corporate promotion of Alabama's image, Westinghouse Inc compliance with Civil Rights Act . 6 pages. |
Freedom Information Service (FIS) Newsletters
November 17, 1967
Jaunary 19, 1968
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
| July | To Naperville Churches. Request that the Naperville IL supporters and churches send messages to White House. Raymond Watts, father of volunteer Tom Watts. |
| 7/1 | Dear Meme & Pappy. Note from Phoebe about Tom Watts, COFO volunteer in Laurel |
| 7/3 | Hello. Letter from Tom Watts in Laurel. Describes mass meeting in Hattiesburg. |
| 7/7x | Dear Meme & Pappy, note from Phoebe. |
| 8/6 | Dear JoAnn, letter to JoAnn Ooiman (handwritten). From Edie. Responding to correspondece from Canton MS. 4 pages. |
| 8/18 | Dear Miss Ooiman, note from Senator Paul Douglas responding to her letter from Canton MS |
| 8/23 | Dear JoAnn, letter to JoAnn Ooiman (handwritten). From Edie. Responding to correspondece from Canton MS. 2 pages. |
| 8/24 | Dear JoAnn, letter to JoAnne Ooiman from Louis Lehman.. Responding to correspondece with plans to support the movement in Canton MS |
| Charles Leslie | Interview about the Movement in Durham NC. 2004. 9 pages. |
| Beulah Mason | Interview about memories of Durham during the movement years. 2004. 14 pages |
| Faye Bryant Mayo | Interview about participating in the movement in Durham and afterwards. 2003. 19 pages |
| Anne C. Smith | Interview about working at Woolworths at the time of the sit-ins. 2003. 12 pages |
No new articles added this month
Lonnie Bunch, by the SNCC Legacy Project (SLP)
Dr. William Anderson
No new answers added this month.
No new poems added this month.
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Mississippi: Into the Storm
March to Montgomery
Freedom Movement Posters
Recent Books by or About Movement Veterans:
Eyes Have Seen: From
Mississippi to Montreal, by Fred Anderson, 2025. Hattiesburg MS, SNCC
MS, AL, GA. Anti-Vietnam War movement & draft-resistance.
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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