From Sit-Ins to SNCC : The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s / edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Philip, 1948-

Morgan, Iwan W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--History.

Civil rights movements.

College students--Political activity--History.

College students.

Civil rights demonstrations--United States.

Civil rights demonstrations.

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

United States.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An examination of the role of the SNCC and various SNCC committees in the Civil Rights Movement.

Contents:

The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan

Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk

"complicated hospitality": the impact of the sit-ins on the ideology of Southern segregationists / George Lewis

Breaching the wall of resistance: white southern reactions to the sits-ins / Clive Webb

SNCCs: not one committee, but several / Peter Ling

SNCC's stories at the barricades / Sharon Monteith

From beloved community to imagined community: SNCC's intellectual transformation / Joe Street

The sit-ins, SNCC, and cold war patriotism / Simon Hall

From Greensboro to Notting Hill: the sit-ins in England / Stephen Tuck

Epilogue: still running for freedom: Barack Obama and the legacy of the civil rights movement / Steven F. lawson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-4388-3

0-8130-4364-6

OCLC:

806034389