From sit-ins to SNCC [electronic resource] : the student civil rights movement in the 1960s / edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies.

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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Morgan, Iwan W.
Davies, Philip, 1948-
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
Subjects:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Civil rights demonstrations > United States.
College students > Political activity > History.
Civil rights movements > History.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
Project MUSE eBooks: 2012 (Project MUSE @ John Hopkins University)
EBSCO eBooks: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
From Sit-ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
Format: Electronic eBook
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.