From sit-ins to SNCC the student civil rights movement in the 1960s

Title:

Author:

Davies, Philip, 1948-

ISBN:

9780813043647

Publication Information:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

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.

Abstract:

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

Corporate Subject:

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

Subject Term:

Civil rights movements -- History.

College students -- Political activity -- History.

Civil rights demonstrations -- United States.

Geographic Term:

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

Added Author:

Davies, Philip, 1948-