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Book SynopsisWith its radical ideology and tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement in the '60s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white oppression.
Trade ReviewNot only an important contribution to the history of the struggle for civil rights; it also enlarges our general understanding of contemporary politics and culture. -- Abigail Thernstrom * New Republic *
To anyone who would understand SNCC, this is an essential book. -- James Polk * Newsday *
This splendid history of SNCC has successfully captured the dynamic interplay of two parallel but contradictory elements… This is a well-researched, balanced, and analytical assessment of the history of a primarily black student activist group that, with all its failings, made its special contribution to the political awakening of American blacks and to the changing of American institutions and practices. -- Abraham Holtzman * American Political Science Review *
In Clayborne Carson SNCC has at last found a scholar capable of probing its radical and fractious nature in a manner both sympathetic and prudently critical… Students of social protest will be deeply in the author’s debt for years to come. -- Francis M. Wilnoit * American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One. Coming Together 1. Sit-ins
