Cheryl Lynn Greenberg

A Circle of Trust

Remembering SNCC

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Activists and historians reflect together on the civil rights movement and its meanings and on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's place in American history. On the occasion of the SNCC's 25th anniversary, more than 500 people gathered to celebrate and critique its accomplishments. This book is a provocative account of one of the most significant civil rights organizations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780813524771
• ISBN-10: 0813524776
• Artikelnr.: 21794374

Autorenporträt

CHERYL LYNN GREENBERG is an associate professor of history at Trinity College and author of "Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression.

Inhaltsangabe

The beloved community : origins of SNCC / Diane Nash [and others]
Voter registration is direct action / Charles McDew [and others]
"In the middle of the iceberg" : Mississippi and the Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party / Hollis Watkins [and others]
"Ordinary people" : Alabama and the Lowndes County Freedom Organization /
Bernard Lafayette, Jr [and others]
"Oh freedom" : music of the movement / Bernice Johnson Reagon [and others]
SNCC women and the stirrings of feminism / Mary King [and others]
Black power / Michael Thelwell [and others]
SNCC and the practice of history / Martha Prescod Norman [and others]
Reflecting back / Michael Thelwell [and others]