From Sit-Ins to SNCC
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From Sit-Ins to SNCC

The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

  1. 215 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

From Sit-Ins to SNCC

The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

About this book

In the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter by four North Carolina A&T college students, From Sit-Ins to SNCC brings together the work of leading civil rights scholars to offer a new and groundbreaking perspective on student-oriented activism in the 1960s.

The eight substantive essays in this collection not only delineate the role of SNCC over the course of the struggle for African American civil rights but also offer an updated perspective on the development and impact of the sit-in movement in light of newly released papers from the estate of Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI, and MI-5. The contributors provide novel analyses of such topics as the dynamics of grassroots student civil rights activism, the organizational and cultural changes within SNCC, the impact of the sit-ins on the white South, the evolution of black nationalist ideology within the student movement, works of the fiction written by movement activists, and the changing international outlook of student-organized civil rights movements.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1. The New Movement: The Student Sit-Ins in 1960
  7. 2. Another Side of the Sit-Ins: Nonviolent Direct Action, the Courts, and the Constitution
  8. 3. “Complicated Hospitality”: The Impact of the Sit-Ins on the Ideology of Southern Segregationists
  9. 4. Breaching the Wall of Resistance: White Southern Reactions to the Sits-Ins
  10. 5. SNCCs: Not One Committee, but Several
  11. 6. SNCC’s Stories at the Barricades
  12. 7. From Beloved Community to Imagined Community: SNCC’s Intellectual Transformation
  13. 8. The Sit-Ins, SNCC, and Cold War Patriotism
  14. 9. From Greensboro to Notting Hill: The Sit-Ins in England
  15. Epilogue. Still Running for Freedom: Barack Obama and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
  16. List of Contributors
  17. Index