Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America
Wesley C. Hogan
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Description for Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America
Paperback. Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. This book explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time. Num Pages: 480 pages, 15 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
This book takes a new look at the central lessons of the civil rights movement. Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. Wesley Hogan explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time. She offers new insights into the internal dynamics of SNCC as well as the workings of the larger civil rights movement of which it was a part. Beyond the movement itself, SNCC laid the foundation for the emergence of the New Left and created new definitions of political ... Read more
This book takes a new look at the central lessons of the civil rights movement. Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. Wesley Hogan explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time. She offers new insights into the internal dynamics of SNCC as well as the workings of the larger civil rights movement of which it was a part. Beyond the movement itself, SNCC laid the foundation for the emergence of the New Left and created new definitions of political ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807859599
SKU
V9780807859599
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About Wesley C. Hogan
WESLEY C. HOGAN is assistant professor of history and codirector of the Institute for the Study of Race Relations at Virginia State University.
Reviews for Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America
"Does a fine job of analyzing how SNCC combated racism in some of the worst parts of the nation and, for a brief moment at least, allowed sharecroppers, students, and other ordinary folk - both black and white - to believe that a deeper, richer, more democratic culture was possible in America." - Washington Post"