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| Abbreviation | CRMA |
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| Formation | 1999 |
| Founder | Bruce Hartford |
| Type | Nonprofit organization |
| Purpose | Preserve and make available the history of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Location |
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| Services | Online archive of original source material |
| Affiliations | |
| Website | www |
The Civil Rights Movement Archive (CRMA) refers to both an online collection of materials about the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s (also known as the "Freedom Movement"), as well as the organization that created and maintains it. The collection provided by the CRMA includes materials from many parts of the civil rights movement, and "tells the history of the movement from the perspective of those who were there," an "up-from-below" and "inside-out" approach to history.[1]
The group behind the archive originally referred to themselves as the "Civil Rights Movement Veterans", but in 2020 changed their name to the "Civil Rights Movement Archive" and applied to be a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.[1] The organization now refers to itself as "CRMA" rather than "CRMVet". but the website can still can be found at "crmvet.org".[2] Material from the CRMVet.org website has been cited in the past by The New York Times[3] and other reputable publications.[4][5][6]
- ^ a b "About the Civil Rights Movement Archive". www.crmvet.org. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
- ^ "Civil Rights Movement Archive". www.crmvet.org. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
- ^ Roberts, Sam (July 4, 2016). "Donald Jelinek, Lawyer for Attica Prisoners, Dies at 82 (Published 2016)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
- ^ Ha, Thu-Huong (January 16, 2017). "A powerful guide to "going high" from a 1963 civil rights letter signed by Martin Luther King, Jr". Quartz. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
- ^ Levy-Uyeda, Ray (June 3, 2019). "The Freedom Summer Turned Students Into Revolutionaries". Teen Vogue. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
- ^ "'They couldn't arrest us all': civil rights veteran Rutha Mae Harris on MLK, protest and prison". The Guardian. September 10, 2020. Archived from the original on September 10, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020.