CRMA
Civil Rights Movement Archive
Monthly Newsletter
January 1st, 2026
Table of Contents
Website Report
Our Sister Sites
Announcements
Top Ten Most Viewed
New Resource Pages
New Movement Documents
New Letters & Reports
New Stories & Narratives
New Articles & Speeches
In Memory, New Tributes
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), New Answers
New Poems
New Photos, Art, & Posters
Recent Books
Website Report
As of January 1st, our online archive contained 11,717 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 28,879 visits to the CRMA website during
December for an average of 931 per day. This is approximately 36% higher than
December of last year. Though if we subtract the 8753 from China (as discussed
below) our total December traffic is 20,126 which is just slightly less
than December of 2024.
Out on the global internet there are 31,470 backlinks to our site by websites
owned by organizations, schools, and individuals using us as an information
resource.
Roughly 46% of our visitors came from outside the U.S. in December. That is an
unusually high number. On average over the course of a year, international
users make 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.
For many years, the number of monthly visitors from China has been in
the mid hundreds. But starting last August they jumped up into the thousands
per month (over 10,000 in October) and 8753 in December — 30%
of our total visitors. We have no explanation for this sudden surge in
traffic. Perhaps there has been a change in China's centralized educational
curriculum, or maybe it is some artifact of AI harvesting raw data from our
(and the world's) websites. This unusually high traffic from China skews our
totals and traffic comparisons from previous times.
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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
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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 December.
(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
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- Freedom Movement Photo Album
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- About the Civil Rights Movement Archive
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- March on Washington: Articles & Speeches
- Civil Rights Movement Major Topic Resources
- Freedom Movement Videos
- MLK Speeches & Writings,
Individual Pages & Documents
- The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King. (1967)
- C.R. Movement History: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- C.R. Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- C.R. Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwood, Danville)
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Poems of Langston Hughes
- Poem: Ain't I A Woman? Sojourner Truth
- An Appeal For Human Rights (Atlanta Student Movement) (1960)
- Photo Album: Freedom Movement Posters
- C.R. Movement History: 1955 (Emmett Till, Montgomery Bus Boycott)
Top Ten Sections & Pages That Others on the Internet Link To
Google reports that out on the global internet there are 31,470 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)
- The Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR)
- 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: 1961 (Freedom Rides, MS voter registration, Albany GA)
- C.R. Movement History: 1960 (student sit-ins)
- C.R. Movement History: 1963 Jan-June (Birmingham, Greenwood, Danville)
- Speech to Anti-War Protest, Dr. Martin Luther King. (April 15, 1967)
Montgomery Bus Boycott & Rosa Parks Resources, updated
| 1961 | SNCC Executive Committee Agenda 8/11/61. Charles McDew & Edward King, SNCC |
| 1961 | SNCC Office Report, general report on SNCC activities. Undated (possibly discussed at 8/11/61 ExCom meeting). |
| 1961 | SNCC Fall Conference Committee Report, discussed at 8/11/61 ExCom meeting |
| 1963 | Report of Federal Aid, AK, KS, LA, MI, NM, OK, TX. USCRC. 1963. |
| 1964 | Suggestions for Helping Carole Merritt. Unsigned SNCC. Support mobilization memo for SNCC worker jailed in Canton MS. 2/8/64 |
| 1964 | Letter to Norma Becker re Freedom Schools curriculum conference, Lois Chaffee, COFO. 3/2/64. 2 pages. |
| 1964 | Memo to Norma Becker re UFT locals adopting particular schools for support. John O'Neal, COFO. 3/6/64. 2 pages. |
| 1964 | Memo to Norma Becker with copy of letters sent to UFT, Penny Patch, COFO. 3/10/64. 3 pages |
| 1964 | Letter to Al Shanker re UFT support for Mississippi Freedom Schools. Bob Moses, COFO. 3/10/64. 2 pages. |
| 1964 | Note to Norma Becker re Freedom Schools, Charles Cogen, UFT. 3/13/64 . |
| 1964 | Note to Norma Becker re Pittsburgh PA AFT and Freedom Schools, Charles Cogen, UFT. 3/25/64 . |
| 1964 | Women in Poverty. DOL. July 1964. |
| 64? 65? | CORE Organizational Manual -- Revised. Charles Oldham, CORE. Undated (probably 1964 or 1965). 5 pages. |
| 64? 65? | Test. Unsigned, Louisiana CORE. Test of Civil Rights Movement knowledge, possibly for potential staff. Undated (probably late 1964 or early 1965). 5 pages. |
| 64? 65? | SNCC Executive Committee members Undated (1964, '65, or maybe '66). |
| 64? 65? | SNCC Executive Committee members Undated (1964, '65, or maybe '66). |
| 64? 65? | SNCC Executive Committee members Undated (1964, '65, or maybe '66). |
| 1965 | Tightening Present Projects, Beginning New Programs. Memo to SNCC Executive Committee. Bruce Gordon, SNCC. Undated (probably 1965). 4 pages. |
| 1965 | Memo: Executive Committee Meeting. Cleve Sellers, SNCC. 6/30/65. |
| 1965 | Memo to Don White re attending Executive Committee Meeting. Cleve Sellers, SNCC. 6/30/65. |
Freedom Information Service (FIS) Newsletters
September 1, 1967
September 8, 1967
September 15, 1967
September 22, 1967
September 29, 1967
WATS & Phone Reports (Log of daily phone-in reports)
COFO June 26, 1964. Columbus MS arrests for handing out leaflets.
SNCC June 26, 1964. Itta Bena MS FBI response to previous incident. Chicago IL student sit-in at U.S. Attorney. Meridian & Philadelphia MS John Lewis & others
SNCC June 26, 1964. Illinois support protests. Itta Bena MS FBI arrest of three anti-movement harassers..
SNCC June 26, 1964. Jackson MS missing volunteer, threats, media attention.
SNCC June 26, 1964. New York City support vigils and meetings. Clinton MS church firebombed. Holmes Co. MS Stokeley Carmichael & Charlie Cobb arrested
Documents from the Northern Wing of the Movement
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Documents
New Letters & Reports From Mississippi Freedom Summer
| 8/4 | Dear Friends, Philip Sharp. 5 short letters from Canton MS. |
| 8/6 | Letter to family, Larry Wright. Holly Springs, death of Wayne Yancy |
| 8/8 | Dear Pa, Mona, Thome, and all, Bernard Wasow. Letter from Columbus MS |
| 8/9 | Dear Ones, Judy. Summary letter from Shaw. 2pages. |
| 8/11 | Dear Mom and Pop, Judy. Shaw MS. |
| 8/18 | Dear Friend, David Barnum. 8 pages descriptive letter from Holmes Co. MS. |
Black Power Chronicles Interviews
Koko Barnes, interviewed by Faye Edwards Coleman. Newport News VA, SNCC, Black Panther Party, New School Afro-American Thought, Emmett Till, Linwood Bunch, UCC Commission for Racial Justice.
Milton Coleman, interviewed by Kwame Holman. Milwaukee, Greenwood Black Power declaration 1966, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, the Black press, impact of Black Power movement.
Nkenge Touré, interviewed by Nkechi Taifa. Early activism, Black Panther Party, The Black Voice, arrest, women's issues, DC Rape Crisis Center, National Black Women's Health Project.
Reggie Robinson, interviewed by Karen Spellman. East Baltimore, Civic Interest Group (CIG), SNCC, Mississippi, Ella Baker, Bob Moses, Washington DC, Juneteenth.
No new memories or tributes added this month
No new answers added this month.
Reflection on White Civil Rights Veterans. Maria Gitin. 2025
Young People Lead the Way
The Louisiana Movement
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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