Introduction Part One. Coming Together 1. Sit-ins
Clayborne Carson is Professor of History at Stanford University and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project.
Not only an important contribution to the history of the struggle
for civil rights; it also enlarges our general understanding of
contemporary politics and culture.
*New Republic*
To anyone who would understand SNCC, this is an essential book.
*Newsday*
This splendid history of SNCC has successfully captured the dynamic
interplay of two parallel but contradictory elements… This is a
well-researched, balanced, and analytical assessment of the history
of a primarily black student activist group that, with all its
failings, made its special contribution to the political awakening
of American blacks and to the changing of American institutions and
practices.
*American Political Science Review*
In Clayborne Carson SNCC has at last found a scholar capable of
probing its radical and fractious nature in a manner both
sympathetic and prudently critical… Students of social protest will
be deeply in the author’s debt for years to come.
*American Historical Review*
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