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

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Morgan Iwan W.; Davies Philip, 1948-
Published: University Press of Florida,
Publisher Address: Gainesville
Publication Dates: c2012.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xiii, 200 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780813041513 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0813041511 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: D771
CLC: D771.25
D771.262
Call Number: D771.25/F931
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
An examination of the role of the SNCC and various SNCC committees in the Civil Rights Movement.