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This first year under the revanchist MAGA Regime has been grim for all of us who believe in freedom, equality, justice, and common decency. Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) efforts and programs, education about racism in America and the history of our struggles against it, have been falsely labeled as 'racism against white people' to justify being defunded, dismantled, censored, and suppressed. Agencies and institutions established to oppose racism against nonwhite people and misogyny against women have been transformed into instruments for maintaining injustice and defending bigotry.
Similarly, "wokism" — opposition to systemic racism, sexism, bigotry, and other forms of social injustice — has been construed as a new threat to the American Way of Life that must be stamped out and destroyed. Books are being banned from libraries, education censored, programs eliminated, people fired from their jobs, and a culture of caution and intimidation imposed. MAGA sycophants now head federal law enforcement agencies and bureaucracies. Legal, financial, and organizational retribution against political opponents of the MAGA Regime and those considered guilty of lese-majesty against the wannabe king have become the new norm.
Unfortunately, it looks like the coming year may be worse.
To those of us of a certain age, more and more this feels like we've entered a national version of the Deep South police-states and the economic-terrorism of White Citizen Councils that we endured and resisted back in the day. Just last month, for example, Attorney General Bondi explicitly instructed the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies to "root out" participants, organizers, and fundraisers of "domestic terrorism activities." Among the "extreme views" her order enumerated were "radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity;" and "hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality."
Fortunately, our Civil Rights Movement Archive is self-funded by small donations from freedom movement veterans and other supporters, and almost all of our labor is donated. We have no grants, government funds, corporate support, or salaried employees that can be threatened, so our operations have not been interrupted. Our website traffic, however, is largely from students and educational institutions, and while the overall number of visits to our site has not declined, this year we have seen a downturn in the number of speaking invitations from schools and other institutions — possibly because of MAGA intimidation.
In this time of increasing censorship and thought-suppression, our response has been to continue promoting and freely providing uncensored, primary-source information about the American Civil Rights Movement.
And this year, we and our sister organizations began building the Movement History Initiative (MHI) as 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. This effort by veterans of the 1960s Freedom Movement and modern-era, grassroots social-justice activists in Black communities allows us to share our lives-lived experiences from the inside-out. And to combat MAGA Regime distortions, false-narratives and censorship to provide momentum for movement building today.
According to Google, there were 334,895 visits to our site in 2025 for an overal average of 918 per day. This represents a 22% increase compared to 2024. A visit is someone coming to the site and viewing one or more pages — if someone views three pages that's still one visit, but if that person comes a second time, that's counted as a second visit.
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.
Since the bulk of our users are grade-school and college students, it's normal for our website traffic to rise and fall with the school calendar as they use us for homework, reports, research, and so on. Highest from January-May with our busiest months usually January (MLK Day), February (Black History Month), and April or May (year and term papers due). Then slumping in the summer when schools are not in session and rising again in the fall when they resume. As you can see from the graph below, that pattern continues.
However, this year there is an unexplained quirk. For years, roughly 15-20% of our monthly traffic has been from nations other than the U.S. Historically, visitors from China have numbered in the mid-hundreds. Then starting in August, they jumped up into the thousands per month, going over 10,000 in October, and continuing in the high thousands through December — adding an unexpected 30,000 visitors to our annual total. 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. In any case, if we subtract the unusual traffic from China, our annual total for 2025 drops to 304,121 which would represent an 11% increase over 2024.
Unusual traffic from China aside, on average, international users make up around 15-20% of our users. We are proud that our Freedom Movement of the 1950-1960s is still of interest to people around the world and that our site still stands as an open and free international information resource.
We now provide over 11,000 searchable webpages, documents, and images, plus 486 videos in our Vimeo-based video channel.
According to Google, here are the top-ten, most-visited sections and
individual pages in 2025.
(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
- Site Search: Civil Rights Movement Archive
- Poems of the Civil Rights Movement
- Are You "Qualified" to Vote?—Literacy Tests & Voter Applications
- Freedom Rides and Freedom Riders Resources
- C.R. Movement History 1950-1970
- Documents From the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Freedom Movement Bibliography
- Freedom Movement Photo Album
- Original Freedom Movement Documents
- Civil Rights Movement Web Links
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)
- Poems of Langston Hughes
- Photo Album: The Sit-Ins—Off Campus and Into Movement (1960)
- Photo Album: The Children's Crusade: Birmingham (1963)
- Photo Album: The Freedom Rides (1961)
- Louisiana Voter Application and Literacy Tests
- Photo Album: Freedom Movement Posters
- Alabama Voter Literacy Test
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. (FOR)
- 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)
The CRMA video channel currently contains 486 videos organized into specific collections. The CRMA Video Channel is hosted on the Vimeo platform. Since the Vimeo user-interface is clunky (at best), we provide a CRMA Film, Video & Audio Recordings page which is a more user-friendly Table of Contents with individual links.
Submitted January 1, 2026
Bruce Hartford, CRMA webspinner
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