CRMA
Civil Rights Movement Archive
Monthly Newsletter
November 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 Thoughts & Commentaries
In Memory, New Tributes
New Poems
New Photos, Art, & Posters
Recent Books
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Website Report
As of November 1st, our online archive contained 12,274 viewable pages,
documents, images, and recordings, 521 videos in our Vimeo video channel, and
listings for 697 Freedom Movement veterans.
According to Google, there were 29,574 visits to the CRMA website during
October for an average of 954 per day. This is approximately 20% less than
October of last year — but in October of 2025 we had
abnormally high traffic from China which has since fallen off. Google reports
that out on the global internet there are 20667 backlinks to materials on our
site by people, organizations, schools, and colleges using us as a trusted
information resource.
Roughly 42% of our visitors in October 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 since August of last year, there has been a noticable increase
in traffic from Chine, Vietnam, and Singapore — which may be
some artifact of AI research or development or training rather than actual
human visitors. 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.
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 October.
(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
- MLK Speeched & Writings,
- Documents From the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Freedom Movement Photo Album
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Movement History 1950-1970
- Freedom Movement Videos
- Our Stories & Interviews
- Original Movement Documents by Organization
- About the Civil Rights Movement Archive
Individual Pages & Documents
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- SNCC Founding Statement, 1960 SNCC founding conference
- Poems of Langston Hughes
- Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- Photo Album: The Sit-Ins—Off Campus and Into Movement (1960)
- We Charge Genocide: Crimes of Government Against the Negro People, 1951
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
- Bigger Than a Hamburger, Ella Baker. Address: SNCC founding conference (1960)
- Photo Album: The Children's Crusade: Birmingham (1963)
Top Ten Sections & Pages That Other Websites on the Internet Link To
- CRMA Home Page
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- 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. (1967)
- Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwod, Danville)
- Movement History: 1963 July-Dec (March on Washington JFK assassination)
- Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
Our CRMA Video
Channel on the Vimeo hosting service provides videos created by Freedom
Movement veterans (or their immediate families) and videos created by others
that are substantially about Movement veterans. When you visit the channel,
please consider adding yourself as a "follower" for social-media metrics.
Thanks.
New videos posted in October:
Betty Daniels and Dodie Smith interviews, by Unknown & Michelle Rosemond. Freedom Riders reflect on their experiences, including challenging segregation in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 2019 & 2026. 9 min.
| 1963 | Six Month Report to Executive Committee. John Lewis, SNCC. 12/27/63. 6 pages. |
| 1963 | Washington SNCC Office Report, Bill Mahoney and Mike Thelwell. SNCC. December 28, 1963 |
| 1964 | Fellow Mississippi Summer Project Parents. Call for parents meeting in Chicago area (Winetka). Henrietta B. Moore. 7/12/64 |
| 1964 | What You Can Do, unsigned (probably from Holly Springs). Flyer addressed to northern supporters. Undated (probably summer of 1964) |
| 1964 | Memo: Premier of Ivanhoe Donaldson film, Betty Garman, SNCCt. 12/15/64. 2 pages. |
| 1964 | Memo to CORE staff on November 6-7 conference, Ronnie Moore, CORE. 11/3/64 |
| 1964 | Letter to SNCC leadership re moving beyond support work in the Califnornia. 12/21/64. 2 pages. |
| 1964 | Unsigned: Introduction: Semi-Introspective discussion of goals and leadership issues. 7 pages. (Waveland Conference) |
| 1965 | Instructions to Television-Radio Observers. S. Franklin Mack, UCC. Re racial bias in broadcast. Undated (probably 1965) 6 pages. |
| 1966 | Sunflower County: A Call to Action, Unsigned MFDP. March 11, 1966 |
| 1966 | SNCC: News of the Field #6, March 30, 1966 |
Life With Lyndon in the Great Society, SNCC
| Number 2, February 2, 1965: Lone Star Steel & right-wing extremism, failure to enforce the Civil Rights Act, "cotton bill" to subsidize plantations and textile mills. |
| Number 3, February 11, 1965: South Africa, Treasury Secty. Dillon Reed, Charles Englehard, & U.S, policy and aid and the American South; $100million tax break for DuPont family; slow-walking the legal challenge to Mississippi unconstitutional voter registration. |
| Number 4, February 18, 1965: Rewarding corporate campaign donor General Electric by allowing them to write off ciminal penalties as ordinary business expenses; crony corruption by General Mills and Hubert Humphrey; campaign contributions by corporate beneficiaries of the Cotton Bill |
| Number 6, March 4, 1965: War on Poverty program teaching people how to be low-wage servants; increasing South African sugar quota; slow-walking the Civil Rights Act at Mississippi college; corporate investment and the "gold drain." |
| Number 7, March 10, 1965: Johnson & Selma; water pollution, Clearn Water Act, and corporate influence; United Fruit and the tax ruling; cororate support for South Africa; problems in the Poverty program. |
Freedom Information Service (FIS) Newsletters
May 26, 1967
November 11, 1967
November 17, 1967
February 16
February 23
WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
COFO August 1st, 1964. Greenwood MS violence. Rudd & Grogan
COFO August 1, 1964. Greenwood MS violence. George Johnson, Brenda Travis. Judy Richardson. John Handy beaten in jail.
SNCC August 3-4, 1964. Batesville, Jackson, Columbus. Free Southern Theater, MS. Americus GA. Pete Seeger, Willie Ricks, Mary King, Claude Weaver, Judy Richardson
SNCC August 5, 1964. West Helena AR, Moss Point, Cleveland MS. Bob Blockman, Karen Haberman, Aileen Strelita
COFO August 10, 1964. Meridian & Canton MS, Washsington DC, Washington DC, Jim Monsonis, John Lewis, Cynthia Washington.
Police Surveillance & Repression
| 1970 | Courtland Cox basic ID info. Unsigned FBI. Undated (probably 1970s) |
| 1970 | Cox: activities at Howard and Bertrand Russel's War Crimes Tribunal, Unsigned FBI. "War crimes trial" referred to Russell's 1966 commission of inquiry into U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. 3/25/70 |
| 1970 | Cox: tracking/surveillance update, Unsigned FBI. Brief references to Drum & Spear bookstore, Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers, Center for Black Education om Washington DC, Malcom X Liberation Univeristy in Durham, and Tanzanis. 8/7/70 |
| 1970 | Report on Drum & Spear booktore, Washington DC. Unsigned FBI. 9/10/70 |
| 1970 | Message to FBI HQ about Courtland Cox reporting that he returned from Africa with six boxes of African goods for the Drum and Spear bookstore to sell. Unsigned FBI. 12/22/70 |
| 1971 | Message to FBI HQ about Courtland Cox that he will be traveling to Algiers for Palestine World Week reception, Unsigned FBI. |
| 1971 | Report that Black Americans attended a Chines film showing in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Unsigned FBI. 6/21/71 |
| 1972 | Report on Courtland Cox, Drum & Spear bookstore, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Unsigned FBI. (Much material redacted.). 11/16/71 |
Press Releases
| 6/14/65 | MFDP | News Flash!, Jackson MS mass protests. Esther, Margaret, Betty, Shirley. |
| 1/8/66 | SNCC | News From..., Massive Demonstation Against Murder Halts Business in Tuskegee, Alabama. Response to killing of Samuel Younge. |
Vietnam War, Military Draft, & GI Movement Documents
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Documents
| 9/2/64 | A.P. Christiansen, Knox Coll. | Letter to JoAnne Ooiman, re admission of Leroy LeFlore and JoAnn's work in Canton MS. |
| 9/10/64 | Unsigned, COFO | Canton COFO, Two Week's Report. 9 pages |
| 9/11/64 | James Best, FoR. | Letter to JoAnn Ooiman, re funding freedom school libraries in MS. |
| 9/20/64 | Laura & Lou Leherman | Dear JoAnn, letter to JoAnn Ooiman re her work in Canton MS from supporter in Galesburg OH. 2 pages |
| 9/24/64 | James Best, FoR. | Letter to Ellen Maslow, re funding freedom school libraries in MS. |
| 10/10/64 | Laura & Lou Leherman | Dear JoAnn, letter to JoAnn Ooiman re her work in Canton MS and support work in Galesburg OH. 2 pages |
| 10/30/64 | James Best, FoR. | Letter to JoAnn Ooiman, re problems sending literature to Canton MS. |
New Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
| 7/10/64 | Tom Watts, COFO | Hello, group letter home about work in Laurel MS. |
| 7/10/64 | Tom Watts, COFO | Friday Night, Note from family to Tom Watts in Laurel MS. |
| 6/15/64 | Richard Haley, CORE | Dear George, note to George Raymond about summer project work and reporting from Canton MS |
| 7/10/64 | Burke Marshall, DoJ | Letter to Senator Dirksen regarding attitude of Dept. of Justice towards harassment or violence against civil rights workers in the South. |
| 7/12 | Tom Watts, COFO | Dear Wattses. Letter from Tom Watts re Hattiesburg freedom school and beatings inflicted on civil rights workers and visiting rabbi. |
Police Surveillance & Repression Against the Movement, Bruce Hartford
Norma Freeland Collins
No new answers added this month.
No new poems added this month.
The Freedom Rides
The Louisiana Movement
Freedom Movement Art, Special Collections
Recent Books by or About Movement Veterans:
Not Dreaming: Martin
Luther King's Critique of America, by Robert Cohen. Analysis of Dr.
King's radical social criticism of America, racism, militarism, and
materialism.
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.
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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