CRMA Film, Video & Audio Recordings

This page lists video and audio recordings posted on this Civil Rights Movement Archive website and our CRMA Vimeo channel.

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Contents:

CRMA Videos
CRMA Audio Recordings
Bibliography of Film, Video & Audio on other websites.
Freedom Movement Photos, Posters, Pins, & Art.

See also:
SNCC Digital Gateway Video Channel (Vimeo)
CRMA Bibliography of Movement Films, Videos & Audios on other websites & platforms.

Freedom Movement Related Videos

CRMA Vimeo Channel on the Vimeo platform provides free live-streaming of films and videos about the Freedom Movement of the 1950s- 1960s.

The films and videos in our Vimeo channel are grouped into "showcases" that reflect our "up-from-below," "inside-out," and "lives-lived" approach to documenting our history. All of them were either created by Freedom Movement veterans (or their immediate families), or were created by others but are substantially about Movement veterans, or were created with significant input from veterans.

Video Channel Contents:

Documentary Films Collection, professionally created films.
Our Voices Collection, individually created videos.
Freedom Movement Stories We Always Wanted to Tell, short stories by veterans.
Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference Collection, June 2014.
SNCC Conferences & Events Collection, presentations, panels, & discussions
SCLC/SCOPE 50th Anniversary Collection, panels, interviews, & discussions
Panels, Discussions & Presentations about the Freedom Movement
SNCC Legacy Project (SLP) videos
San Francisco Freedom School (SFFS) videos & audios
 
Julian Bond Video Collection, interviews by Gregg Ivers (American Univ).
Charles Bonner Collection, videos created by a SNCC veteran.
Courtland Cox Collection, videos created by SNCC and SLP leader.
James Farmer Collection, videos from Farmer's Civil Rights Movement course, 1986.
Eyes on the Prize Interviews, by Blackside, Inc. 1980s.
Freedom Summer Interviews & Stories, 1964-1965
Library of Congress: Civil Rights History Project
Movement Veterans Interviewed by Students.
Questions From Teachers Collection, 2 discussions by UC Berkeley.
Richmond 34 Video Collection
Sixth Floor Museum Oral History Collection, Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas TX.
St. Augustine Movement Collection
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Collection, oral-history interviews.
Voices Across the Colorline, Atlanta History Center interviews.
Voices of Freedom ~ Virginia Commonwealth University, videos related to Virginia.
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, oral-history interview videos.

Documentary Films Collection

The Documentary Films Collection contains films about Freedom Movement events or individuals from an "up-from-below," "inside-out," and "lives-lived" view of the Civil Rights Movement.

 

Our Voices Collection

The Our Voices Collection contains individual videos created by, or substantially featuring, Freedom Movement veterans who present an "up-from-below," "inside-out," and "lives-lived" view of the Civil Rights Movement.

 

The Freedom Movement Stories We Always Wanted to Tell Collection

This collection contains short videos from a 2010 Movement veterans story- telling session at the San Francisco Main Library to an audience of other movement veterans and family members.

 

SNCC Anniversary Conferences and SLP Events

Videos from Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe (SNCC) anniversary conferences and SNCC Legacy Project (SLP) events.

SNCC 60th Anniversary Conference, online, 2021
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference, Raleigh NC, 2010
SNCC 40th Anniversary Conference, Raleigh NC, 2000
SNCC 28th Anniversary Conference, Hartford CT, 1988

SNCC 60th Anniversary Conference, Videos produced by the SNCC Legacy Project (SLP), 2021.

The SNCC 60th Anniversary Conference was held online in October of 2021 to commemorate the founding of SNCC in 1960 and to uplift the current anti-racist, pro-people struggles of young activists today.

Plenary Sessions

Panels & Workshops

Conference Small Group Discussions. As part of the SNCC 60th Conference in October of 2021, eight small-groups of Freedom Movement veterans discussed the Freedom Movement and how it affected their lives. The sessions were video-recorded and transcribed. The videos have not been edited. The transcripts contain clarifications, corrections, and annotations in [brackets]. Please check a transcript before quoting from a discussion.

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference, Shaw University, Raleigh NC, April 2010. Videos produced by California Newsreel.

SNCC 40th Anniversary Conference Collection, Shaw University, Raleigh NC, April 2000.

SNCC 28th Anniversary: We Shall Not Be Moved: The Life and Times of SNCC 1960-1966 Conference
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut April 14, 1988

 

SCLC/SCOPE 50th Anniversary Collection

Videos from SCLC/SCOPE 50th Reunion, Atlanta GA, October 1-4 2015

Group & presentation

Interviews

 

Panels, Discussions & Presentations about the Freedom Movement

 

SNCC Legacy Projet (SLP) videos

 

San Francisco Freedom School videos & audios

The San Francisco Freedom School (SFFS) for high school & college students and teachers ran in the summer from 2005-2010. The curriculum featured Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement teaching civil rights history as an example of what makes a successful social movement. Prof. Emery adopted the SFFS curriculum and the in-person use of Freedom Movement veterans for the political science course she taught at San Francisco State University (SFSU) from 2010-2020. These videos and audios are recordings of movement veterans' participation in both.

 

Julian Bond Video Collection

The videos in this collection were created by the Julian Bond Oral History Project which is dedicated to the memory, work, and career of Julian Bond from 1960-1968 and to the broader Southern civil rights movement. These interviews were conducted primarily by Gregg Ivers, Project Director and professor of government at American University in Washington DC.

 

Charles Bonner Collection

While still in his teens, Charles Bonner was a leader of the high school and college students in Selma Alabama who were the backbone and nonviolent warriors of the Voting Rights Campaign.

 

Courtland Cox Collection

 

James Farmer Collection

Video lecture & reflection recordings from James Farmer's Civil Rights Movement in the 20th Century course taught by him at the University of Mary Washington 1986-1987. Original source metadata.

Lecture Transcripts:

Reflections transcripts compiled and produced by WNVT-TV, University of Mary Washington.

 

Eyes on the Prize Interviews

This collection contains interviews conducted by Blackside from the late 1970s into the 1980s for "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965)." Courtesy of Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.

 

Freedom Summer Interviews & Stories, 1964-1965

As used in this section, " Freedom Summer" is a generic term covering all of the instances when northerner volunteers (students, professionals, and others) came to support the Southern Freedom Movement over Summer vacation and Thanksgiving and Winter holidays in 1963, '64, and '65, in multiple southern states. For additional information see Documents From Freedom Summer Projects and Letters & Reports From Freedom Summer.

 

Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Reunion & Conference Collection, June 2014

The Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Reunion & Conference was held 2014 at Tougaloo College in Jackson Mississippi to celebrate, commemorate, and assess the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer that brought in more than 1000 out-of-state volunteers to support the long struggle for voting rights in that state.

Videos by Natalie Bullock Brown/Ascension Productions.

 

Library of Congress: Civil Rights History Project

The Civil Rights History Project Collection is a joint initiative of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement. The project was initiated in 2010 with the survey and with interviews beginning in 2011.

 

Movement Veterans Talk With Students Collection

Interviews and discussions betweeen students and Civil Rights Movement veterans.

 

Questions From Teachers Collection

Two 2020 webinars hosted by U.C. Berkeley where Civil Rights Movement veterans discussed questions posed by teachers about the Freedom Movement and how it is taught.

 

Richmond 34 Collection

In 1960, hundreds of students protested lunch counter segregation in Richmond, VA at the Thalheimers Department Store. 34 of them were arrested. Half a century later, the Richmond Performing Arts Alliance commemorated those arrests with a mural by Germany Ray and Hamilton Glass and these interviews with sit-in participants.

 

Sixth Floor Museum Oral History Collection

This special oral history showcase, Voices from the Civil Rights Movement, includes a selection of interviews conducted with civil rights and social justice activists by the Sixth Floor Museum, Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.

 

St. Augustine Movement Video Collection

Interviews from the Civil Rights Library of St. Augustine, presented in the Civil Rights Digital Library, from Flagler College and other archives.

 

Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Oral History Project Collection

Oral history interviews of local and national activists, political and community leaders, and grassroots people who actively worked in Mississippi communities during the 1950s-60s. Produced by Owen Brooks, VMCRM Oral History Project. Tougaloo College. See also Oral Histories Library.

 

Voices Across the Color Line Collection

Interviews of Freedom Movement veterans by the Atlanta History Center - Kenan Research Center, 2005-2006.

 

Voices of Freedom ~ Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI), oral-history interviews

 

CRMA Audio Collection

  • Strea ming audio recordings from events, interviews, discussions, oral-histories, & etc.

    Audio Contents:

     

    The Stories We Always Wanted to Tell

    Short stories about events we participated in, experiences we had, and the people we knew and loved. As told to a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the student-led sit-ins of 1960, the rise of youth-led activism, and the founding of SNCC. Main library, San Francisco, March 27, 2010

    Don Jelinek & Jean Wiley: Introduction  — Transcript

    Chude Allen My Mother and Father Believe Ours Is a Good Country — Transcript
    Ellen Broms High Yellow — Transcript
    Kathy Cade My First Demonstration, Atlanta, 1962 — Transcript
    Hardy Frye Everyone Was a Leader — Transcript
    Maria Gitin Story From Wilcox County, Alabama — Transcript
    Miriam Glickman     Our Mississippi Dilemma — Transcript
    Linda Halpern The Shooting of Silas McGhee — Transcript
    Bruce Hartford Albert Turner & the Rocking Chair — Transcript
    Stu House "Inciting to Riot" in Selma AL — Transcript
    Don Jelinek The Two Cows — Transcript
    Adam Kline Greenwood, Mississippi — Transcript
    Sherie Labedis Fireball in the Night — Transcript
    Betita Martinez   Liz is Betita: A SNCC Memory — Transcript
    Mike Miller The Agitator — Transcript
    Wazir Peacock Fighting for Freedom in the Mississippi Delta — Transcript
    Jimmy Rogers An Experience with Violence in Lowndes County, Alabama — Transcript
    Scott B. Smith My Name is Scott B. Smith Jr. — Transcript
    Nancy Stoller Bowling in Prince Georges County, Maryland — Transcript
    Rick Tuttle The Brutal Winona, Mississippi Jail Beatings of June 1963 — Transcript
    Bob Weil A Faulkner Tale — Transcript
    Bright Winn Mrs. Magruder — Transcript
    Michael WrightSNCC and My Movement Life — Transcript

     

    Documentaries, Pod-Casts, & Presentations

     

    Interviews, Narratives & Oral Histories

    Bell & Spears Interview by Mimi Feingold re the Movement, repression, and arrests in Clinton, LA. 23 min Transcript
    Willie Blue SNCC 50th Commemoration Interview, by Max Krochmal. Raleigh NC. 2010. 40 min. Transcript
    Julian Bond Interview by Evan Faulkenbury, SOHP. 48 min. Transcript
    Ron Bridgeforth We Were Not Alone Narrative. 2022. 9 min
    Joseph Carter Interview by Mimi Real, 1967. Arrested for trying to register to vote in Louisiana. 47 min. Transcript
    Benja min Chavis Muhammad Interview by Kieran Taylor. 96 min. Transcript
    Arlene Dunn Interview, re Arkansas SNCC and anti-racism work with whites in the North with PAR, by Karlyn Foner, 2010. 49 min. Transcript
    Jim Grant Oral-History Interview by Joshua Clark Davis. Re North Carolina SCEF, Charlotte Three. 204 min. Transcript
    Bruce Hartford Interview by Will Griffin Southern Oral History Project, 2010. 52 min
    Questions About the Civil Rights Movement Interview, 2025. 96min. Transcript
    Robert Hicks Interview by Mimi Feingold Real, 1967. Re Bogalusa LA Movement. 10 min. Transcript
    Hattie Hill (17) Interview by Mimi Feingold Real, 1967. Re Bogalusa LA Movement. 26 min. Transcript
    Ellis Howard Interview by Mimi Feingold re Jonesboro LA. 53 min. Transcript
    Elmo Jacobs Interview by Mimi Feingold re Jonesboro LA. 5 min. Transcript
    Frederick D. Lewis Interview by Mimi Feingold re voting rights and the Movement Claiborne Parish, LA. 24 min. Transcript
    Annie Johnson Interview by Mimi Feingold re Jonesboro LA. 11 min. Transcript
    Joseph Lee Marlbough Interview by Mimi Feingold re ASCS elections & economic justice in Greensburg, LA. 7 min. Transcript
    Liberty MS Freedom Movement Meeting, Led by Smiley Proff. 65 min. Transcript
    Madison Parish LA Conversation about the Freedom Movement, 1965 10 min. Transcript
    Alan McSurley Oral-History Interview by Andy Horowitz, Southern Oral History Program, 2002. 47 min. Transcript
    John C. Morris Interview re the movement in Batesville by Cheryl Johnson. 23 min. Transcript
    Bill Perlman Interview SNCC 50th Conference. By Max Krochmal, SOHP. 52 min. Transcript
    Wallace Roberts Interview re Freedom Summer & SNCC. By Orion Teal (SOHP). 2010. 45 min. Transcript
    Carol Rogoff Interview re SNCC, Mississippi, E.W. Steptoe. By Orion Teal (SOHP). 2010. 84 min. Transcript
    Cleveland Sellers Oral History Interview by Evan Faulkenbury (SOHP)  Tape #1 Tape #2Transcript
    Modjeska Simkins   Oral-History by Jacquelyn Hall (SOHP), re NAACP and the Movement in South Carolina, 345 min. Transcript
    E.W. Steptoe Description of violence and murder of Herbert Lee in Amite Co. MS. 121 min. Transcript
    Nancy Stoller Interview by David Cline re SNCC, 2010. 102 min. Transcript
    Talullah, LA Group Interview, 1965 or 1966. 41 min. Transcript
    Wyatt T. Walker Interview by Evan Faulkenbury, SOHP. 45 min. Transcript
    A.Z. Young Interview by Mimi Feingold Real re Bogalusa LA Movement. 1967. 20 min.

     

    Discussions & Panels

     

    SCLC/SCOPE 50th Reunion, Atlanta GA, October 1-4 2015

    Reunions & Other Events

     

    Mississippi Oral Histories

    Raw, unedited audio recordings conducted by Owen Brooks of Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Inc. from 2004 through 2007.

    Doug Anderson 2006.
    James Anderson 2004.
    Ruben Anderson 2006.
    Louis Armstrong 2006.
    Nancy Bartow 2005.
    Willie Blue 2006.
    Harry Bowie 2004.
    Clint Collier 2005.
    MacArthur Cotton 2006.
    L.C. Dorsey 2006.
    Frank Figgers 2005.
    Marilyn Lowen 2005.
    Brenda Travis 2007.
    Jimmy Travis 2006.

     


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