Civil rights movement veterans
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Civil Rights Movement Veterans (CRMVets) is a loose, on-line association of people who were active in the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s with organizations such as NAACP, CORE
, SCLC
, SNCC
, Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF), Southern Students Organizing Committee (SSOC), Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), Deacons for Defense
, Delta Ministry, and other similar groups. Most CRMVets activity is oriented around contributing to the organization's web site at http://www.crmvet.org, responding to research queries, conducting seminars, and speaking to schools and other groups about the Freedom Movement.
In addition to providing contact information for movement veterans and a History and Timeline of the Southern Freedom Movement, CRMVets collects and posts primary source material about the Civil Rights Movement such as personal stories and interviews, discussions and analysis of the movement by those who were active in it, answers to Frequently Asked Questions, original source documents, movement-related poetry, and an extensive bibliography and list of web links. The web site also provides a place for movement veterans to post memorials and tributes for fellow veterans who have passed on.
CRMVets is an unincorporated, non-profit, non-commercial organization entirely supported by volunteer labor and donations of participants.
Congress of Racial Equality
The Congress of Racial Equality or CORE was a U.S. civil rights organization that originally played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement...
, SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...
, SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ' was one of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a series of student meetings led by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina in April 1960...
, Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF), Southern Students Organizing Committee (SSOC), Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), Deacons for Defense
Deacons for Defense and Justice
The Deacons for Defense and Justice is an armed self defense African American civil rights organization in the U.S. Southern states during the 1960s. Historically, the organization practiced self-defense methods in the face of racist oppression that was carried out by Jim Crow Laws; local and state...
, Delta Ministry, and other similar groups. Most CRMVets activity is oriented around contributing to the organization's web site at http://www.crmvet.org, responding to research queries, conducting seminars, and speaking to schools and other groups about the Freedom Movement.
In addition to providing contact information for movement veterans and a History and Timeline of the Southern Freedom Movement, CRMVets collects and posts primary source material about the Civil Rights Movement such as personal stories and interviews, discussions and analysis of the movement by those who were active in it, answers to Frequently Asked Questions, original source documents, movement-related poetry, and an extensive bibliography and list of web links. The web site also provides a place for movement veterans to post memorials and tributes for fellow veterans who have passed on.
CRMVets is an unincorporated, non-profit, non-commercial organization entirely supported by volunteer labor and donations of participants.