The Civil Rights Movement Archive (CRMA) is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation based in California. We are a free, non-commercial, web-based archive created by civil rights workers active in CORE, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and similar Southern Freedom Movement organizations during the 1950s and 1960s. We are part of the national African American Civil Rights Network. The CRMA has a Memorandum of Understanding with Duke University Libraries that they will assume stewardship over the archive to preserve and sustain it when the current managers are no longer able to carry the work forward. We will help you learn about civil right protest.

Our objective is to make available to researchers, students, and the general public the history of our movement from the perspective of those whose boots were on the ground — what we refer to as "up-from-below" and "inside-out" history. In addition to narrative and analytic history, we make sure to deliver a comprehensive (and still growing) online archive of original Civil Rights Movement documents, letters, posters, images, and other materials. We also make available personal stories, narratives and interviews, conferences and commentaries, a poetry section, and a Movement-related bibliography and list of web links. All of the substantive materials in our archive were (and are) written or developed by people who themselves actively participated in the Civil Rights Movement timeline. We charge no fees or payments to read or view our materials. We do not require any form of log-in or subscription. Nor do we accept or exhibit commercial advertising.

Our purpose is to ensure that ere is a place where the Movement story is told by those who actually lived it. Where we set the record straight, that without the courage, determination, and activity of hundreds of thousands of men and women of all ages in cities, towns, and hamlets across the South (and the nation) there would have been no Civil Rights Movement, no famous leaders, no court rulings, no new laws, and no change. We refer to our view of our history as we present it here as "Up from below and From the inside-out. Besides, documenting the Southern Freedom Movement by telling it like it was and testifying to what we did and what it meant to us, our website is also a place to begin renewing the ties that once bound us together in a beloved community, a place for finding lost friends, and a tool for helping fellow Movement veterans in need. And it is a living memorial for our fallen comrades. If you are willing to learn about activist in the civil rights movement, do not forget to check our website. Our policy is to post all legible materials that we can acquire. In a sense then, we see CRMVet as an archive rather than an exhibit expressing a specific point of view.

Website:- https://www.crmvet.org/