Title From sit-ins to SNCC : the student civil rights movement in the 1960s / edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies

Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012 ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) : illustrations illustration 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 Summary An examination of the role of the SNCC and various SNCC committees in the Civil Rights Movement Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) SUBJECT Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) fast Subject Civil rights demonstrations -- United States. College students -- Political activity -- History Civil rights movements -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Civil rights demonstrations Civil rights movements College students -- Political activity Race relations SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Morgan, Iwan W., editor. Davies, Philip, 1948- editor. LC no. 2012009911 ISBN 9780813043647 0813043646 9780813043883 0813043883

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