CRMA
Civil Rights Movement Archive
Monthly Newsletter
December 1st, 2025
Table of Contents
Website Report
Our Sister Sites
Announcements
Top Ten Most Viewed
New Movement Documents
New Letters & Reports
New Discussions
In Memory, New Tributes
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), New Answers
New Poems
New Photos, Art, & Posters
Recent Books
Recent Films/Videos
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Website Report
As of December 1st, our online archive contained 11,648 viewable pages,
documents, images, and recordings, 486 videos in our Vimeo video channel, and
listings for 696 Freedom Movement veterans.
According to Google, there were 29,463 visits to the CRMA website during
November for an average of 935 per day. This is approximately 21% higher than
November of last year.
There are 22,693 links on the global internet to our site.
On school days, our number of visitors ranged from 1500 to 850 per day.
Roughly 35% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. in November.
On average, until recently over the course of a year, international users made
up 15%-20% of our users. 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.
However, in November, 20% of our total visitors came from China, and back in
October and September there were also significant and highly unusual spikes in
visits from that nation.
We have no explanation from this sudden surge in visits from China. But it
masks a noticeable decline in U.S. traffic compared to November of last year.
If we subtract visits from China, our overall traffic declined more that 25%
from last November. Since two-thirds of our visitors are students (grade
school and college) we believe that a significant portion of this decline
stems from the unrelenting attacks being waged by Republicans and MAGAites
against teachers, librarians, school boards, and universities who dare stand
against systemic racism and educate around issues of racial injustice.
Nevertheless, we will persevere.
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.
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 November.
(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
- C.R. Movement History 1950-1970
- New! CRMA Newsletter for October
- Freedom Movement Photo Album
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Civil Rights Movement Web Links
- Our Words, Articles & Speeches
- Documents: Selma Alabama and the March to Montgomery 1963-1965
- About the Civil Rights Movement Archive
Individual Pages & Documents
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- C.R. Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- C.R. Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Poem: Ain't I A Woman? Sojourner Truth
- Photo Album: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (1940s-1950s)
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
- Photo Album: The Freedom Rides (1961)
- An Appeal For Human Rights (Atlanta Student Movement) (1960)
- Poems of Langston Hughes
Top Ten Sections & Pages That Others on the Internet Link To
Google reports that out on the global internet there are 22,963 backlinks to
materials on our site by people, organizations, grade-schools, and
universities using us as a trusted information resource. The Top-Ten linked to
pages are:
- 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. (Fellowship of Reconciliation)
- C.R. Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
- C.R. Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- C.R. Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- Statement by Dr. King announcing Poor Peoples Campaign. (December 4, 1967)
- C.R. Movement History: 1963 July-Dec (Mass Protests, March on Washington JFK assassination)
| 1962 | Report on Rollerbowl Incident, Cairo IL. Harry McCollum, SNCC. Violent white racist and police response to integration attempt. 8/17/62. 4 pages. |
| 1963 | Memo re upcoming SNCC meeting, John Lewis, SNCC. 8/13/63 |
| 1964 | Problems Now Before CORE. Ronnie Moore CORE Southern Regional office. Undated 1964. 3 pages. |
| 1964 | Literacy test results request form. Unsigned, Louisiana CORE. Possibly for evidence in legal challenge to denial of voting rights. Undated 1964. |
| 1964 | Mississippi Legislature — 1964 (Repressive laws enacted to oppose Freedom Summer) |
| 1964 | COFO Political Program. Unsigned COFO. Undated (probably May or June). 3 pages. |
| 1964 | Partial list of Sunflower Co. MS incidents, 145 incidents of violence, intimidation, and repression from 1960-1964. Unsigned SNCC or COFO. Undated (probably August or September 1964). 9 pages. |
| 1964 | Announcement: S.E. Regional Chapters Meeting. Richard Haley, CORE Southern Director. 11/6/64. |
| 64? 65? | Proposal for the Duties of SNCC Affiliate Groups on Southern College Campuses, Joyce Ladner, SNCC. Undated (possibly 1964, '65, or '66). |
| 64? 65? | CORE training institute (outline? agenda?) Usigned CORE. Undated 1964 or 1965. 3 pages. |
| 64? 65? | Outline for work. Unsigned, CORE. Location unknown. Undated (probably later 1964 or early 1965). |
| 64? 65? | Proposed CORE Workshop . Unsigned, CORE. Undated (1964 or 1965). 2 pages. |
| 1965 | Memorandum: Recruitment and Screening of Volunteers for FDP Summer Project. BG (Betty Garman?) MFDP. 5/29/65 |
| 65? 66? | SNCC Executive Committee Rosters Unsigned SNCC. Undated (65? 66?) |
| 65-67 | Memo re Executive Committee meeting. Unsigned SNCC. Undated (65? 66? 67?) |
| 65-67 | Memo about Executive Committee meeting. Cleve Sellers, SNCC. Undated (65? 66? 67?) |
| 66? 67? | Memo suspending operations at Los Angeles SNCC office. Charlie Cobb, SNCC. Undated (possibly 1966 or 1967). |
Freedom Movement Publications
Southern Patriot, January, 1956, 10-year retrospective, college segregation, health segregation, political attacks against SCEF.
Southern Patriot, February, 1956, human rights in Mississippi, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Aubrey Williams statement, racial income inequities.
Southern Patriot, March, 1956, New Orleans school case, Montgomery Bus Boycott report, Aubrey Williams statement.
Southern Patriot, April 1956, Fallacy of "Moderation," E.D. Nixon on Montgomery Bus Boycott, "Dixie Manifesto."
Freedom Information Service (FIS) Newsletters
April 28, 1967
May 5, 1967
May 19, 1967
June 9 , 1967
June 16, 1967
July 14, 1967
WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
COFO June 25, 1964. Ruleville violence, Jackson media, Moss Point arrests, FBI.
COFO June 25, 1964. Meridian Rita Schwerner, attempt to see MS governor.
SNCC June 25, 1964. Detroit, Jackson, New York, Moss Point, Boston, Chicago, Meridian.
COFO June 26, 1964. Greenwood, Columbus, Belzoni, threats, arrests, violence
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
San Francisco State College Student Activism Documents (1966-1969)
Anti-Vietnam War (5 documents).
Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) (23 documents).
Anti-Draft (4 documents)
Peace & Freedom Party (2 documents).
Library workers organizing (2 documents)
Misc. activism (7 documents).
| 4/24/61 | Joseph Clarke, USPO | Letter cancelling firing of Amzie Moore from his Post Office job, Mississippi |
| 5/15/61 | Amzie Moore, RCNL | Response from Amzie Moore re efforts to fire him from the Post Office , Mississippi |
| 6/4/61 | Norman Hill, CORE | Reference check to Amzie Moore re Sam Block, Mississippi |
| 2/5/62 | Carsie Hall, NAACP | Memo to NAACP leaders re South-wide voter-registration campaign, Mississippi |
| 3/12/62 | J. Dombrowski, SCEF | Letter to Frank Laubach re SNCC voter registration project and literacy. |
| 5/7/62 | Andy Young, SCLC | Personal note to Amzie Moore (handwritten) |
New Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
| 7/1 | Dear Folks, Doug. Arrived safe in Jackson, training in Memphis. |
| 7/28 | Dear Father and Mother, Ruth Steward. News letter from Canton and Madison County. Freedom school, organizing, police. 6 pages. |
| 7/28 | Dear Mother, John Stevenson. Meridian work continues |
| 7/28 | Dear People, Judy. MFDP organizing in Shaw, assistance needed, Jackson meeting and male attention. 3 pages. |
| 7/30 | Dear Friends, Peter Rabinowitz. Office work, white reaction, freedom school, MFDP precinct meetings. 3 pages. |
| 7/31 | Hi Darlings, Judy. Freedom library, coming home, friends, MFDP, local youth, exhaustion, community. |
SNCC 28th ~ The New Abolitionists and the Modern South
SNCC 28th ~ The Beginning of the Voter Registration Movement (1961-1963)
SNCC 28th ~ The "Redemptive Community": the Sit-Ins, Freedom Rides, and the Birth of SNCC
SNCC 28th ~ Tom Hayden Remarks
Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown)
No new answers added this month.
No new poems added this month.
Freedom Movement Art, Special Collections
Recent Books by or About Movement Veterans:
Police Against the Movement: The
Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back.
Clark Davis. 2025. Princeton University Press. An examination of the civil
rights struggle through its work against police violence, malpractice, and
illegal surveillance such as the FBI's massive CONINTEL disruption and
political-repression program. Describes CORE, SNCC, and other organization's
direct action resistance to police abuses.
Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement.
Atria/One Signal Publishers (Simon & Schuster) March 2025. The little known
story of how four activists in the 1950s created and built a semi-clandestine
network of Citizenship Schools across the Jim Crow South. A network that
formed a foundation for the Freedom Movement's voting rights battles of the
1960s. Septima Clark, Esau Jenkins, Bernice Robinson, and Myles Horton of the
Highlander Center.
Mississippi's Black Cotton.
By MacArthur Cotton and John Obee, foreword by Nikole Hannah-Jones. University
of Georgia Press. May 1, 2025. A personal history of the 1960's Mississippi
Civil Rights Movement by SNCC Field Secretary MacArthur Cotton, who lived it.
If Anybody Should Ask
You ... This Is What Happened: A Memoir, by Gwendolyn J. Dennis-Mack.
2024. The personal story of an African American high school girl who joined
the movement of young people to desegregate American classrooms in Deep South
Georgia.
More Voices
of Civil Rights Lawyers: Continuing the Struggle, by Kent Spriggs.
Stories and descriptions by 23 Civil Rights Lawyers about their struggles to
advance and maintain human rights in the United States South.
The Tougaloo Nine: The Jackson Library
Sit-In at the Crossroads of Civil War and Civil Rights, by M.J.
O'Brien. University Press of Mississippi. 2025. Detailed story and historical
context of key student-led direct action protest in Mississippi.
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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