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This is a great read on the civil rights movement and how those events affects attempts to organize ever since. This is one of my favorite books of all time.
Vibrant study; I'm delighted it's been reissued!
AWESOME BOOK A MUST ?
An interesting history of the Civil Rights movement and the SNCC's role in it. The difficulty I had in reading it was that there seemed to be a new organization being formed constantly and they all had acronyms. There were a number of times I had to look back to determine which organization he was referring to.
Really interesting history of SNCC. I think it was the first written history of SNCC that did not put MLK at the center of it, which is important. I found it helpful to learn a little bit more about how the organization was started, functioned, and what eventually caused it to crumble.
This book is a history of the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) a student run Civil Rights activist group which emerged during the lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960's. SNCC was also a key player in the Freedom Rides (1961), the Voting Rights movements in Mississippi, the Albany (GA) desegregation effort, the March on Washington, and the March from Selma to Montgomery. Basically all of the key players - John Lewis, Diane Nash, James Bevel, James Foreman, Stokely Carmichael - were
Very thorough, but consequently a bit dry. Carson presents the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as a case study in the history of the civil rights movement and the New Left as a whole. He argues that SNCC was never a stable organization, and that its internal divisions were mirrored in the rest of the movement.Carson identifies three stages of development for SNCC. In the first, lasting from 1960 to 1964, a largely religious and communitarian ethic of nonviolence gradually
Very good book on Civil Rights...thorough and detailed record of the development, progress, accomplishments and struggle of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. The fact that students came together to work for change in their community and in the US is amazing. Their struggle and strength were amazing. This author was close to the committee and issues to experience this first and but also researched and used many sources to write this book objectively, sharing the positive and negativ...
Professor Carson has given the definitive account of the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and its tortured journey; fought not only by enemies without but racked by domestic cannibalism. “Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.” Created during the sit-in movement, galvanized by the Freedom Rides, SNCC took on a life of its own as it organized communities for voter registration and political action. In this it was parallel to the “going to the people movement” of young Russia...
I have been reading about SNCC in a bunch of other books, but this is the one to start with, because it gives a framework to hang all the other stories on. Also, Carson follows SNCC's remains into the 1970s into some (for me) unfamiliar territory after their flirtation with the Oakland Black Panthers. The more I read about SNCC, the more fascinated I become. There were a lot of internal disagreements in post-1966 SNCC that we unfortunately keep repeating in all kinds of organizations, not just t...