From Sit-ins to SNCC
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- ISBN 9780813041513
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 541g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 2012
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: Florida, US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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 ground breaking 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 organisational 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 organised civil rights movements.
Iwan Morgan is professor and head of U.S. programs at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London and the author of numerous books including The Age of Deficits. Philip Davies, director of the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies, has written widely in U.S. politics and is co-editor of America’s Americans: Population Issues in U.S. Politics and Society.
