SNCC: The New Abolitionists

by Howard Zinn

Overview

SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures of those who built the fantastically influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It is considered an indispensable study of the organization, of the 1960s, and of the process of social change. Includes a new introduction by the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608462995
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	12/10/2013
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Howard Zinn: Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist. He wrote the classic A People's History of the United States, “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”

Table of Contents

	Preface to the South End Press Edition	ix
	A Note, and Some Acknowledgments	xi
	Preface to the Second Edition	xv
1.	The New Abolitionists	1
2.	Out of the Sit-ins	16
3.	The Freedom Rides	40
4.	Mississippi I: McComb	62
5.	Mississippi II: Greenwood	79
6.	Mississippi III: Hattiesburg	102
7.	Southwest Georgia: The Outsider as Insider	123
8.	Alabama: Freedom Day in Selma	147
9.	The White Man in the Movement	167
10.	"I Want To Know: Which Side Is the Federal Government On?"	190
11.	The Revolution Beyond Race	216
12.	An Independent Radicalism	242
	Index	276

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Seminal" —Washington Post

Editorial Reviews

"Seminal"
—Washington Post

“A good way to maintain your sense of the urgency of civil rights problems is to keep a copy of Howard Zinn’s book handy.”
—Harvard Crimson Review

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