Many minds, one heart : SNCC's dream for a new America / Wesley C. Hogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogan, Wesley C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American political activists--Biography.

African American political activists.

African American civil rights workers--Biography.

African American civil rights workers.

Oral history.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Social movements--United States--History--20th century.

Social movements.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Southern States.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)--History.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.).

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time. She offers new insights into the internal dynamics of SNCC as well as the workings of the larger civil rights and Black Power movement of which it was a part. As Hogan chronicles, the members of SNCC created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom, including the sit-ins of 1960, the rejuve

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One. A Movement Education; 1 The Nonviolent Anvil; 2 Come Get My Mattress and I'll Keep My Soul: Freedom Riding; 3 The Inner Life of Recruiting; Part Two. How Democracy Travels; 4 Bridges to the North; 5 Testing the Southern Blueprint; 6 SNCC Teaches SDS How to Act; Part Three. Delta Civics: Fashioning a New America; 7 The Core Struggle; 8 The High Summer of Transformation; Part Four. Movement Ecology; 9 Contact with Power: Atlantic City; 10 Desperate Initiatives: Waveland; 11 Vertigo; 12 Not Quite There: The Search for Enduring Ground

Conclusion: Freedom as an Inside JobAfterword: Beyond Sacred Ground; Appendix A: We'll Never Turn Back: Freedom Songs; Appendix B: Affidavits; Appendix C: The Other Sacred Ground; Appendix D: Incidents of Violence against Voter Registration Activities in Mississippi, 1964; Appendix E: James Forman's Speech at Waveland, November 1964; Appendix F: Suggested Structures for SNCC, November 1964; Appendix G: Structure Debate at Waveland; Appendix H: SNCC as the Borning Struggle; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-433) and index.

ISBN:

9798890878892

9780807867891

0807867896

OCLC:

827208594