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SNCC's Stories - The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South (Paperback)
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SNCC's Stories - The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South (Paperback)
Series: Print Culture in the South Series
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Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights
collective led by young people. For Howard Zinn in 1964, SNCC
members were "new abolitionists," but SNCC pursued radical
initiatives and Black Power politics in addition to reform. It was
committed to grassroots organizing in towns and rural communities,
facilitating voter registration and direct action through
"projects" embedded in Freedom Houses, especially in the South: the
setting for most of SNCC's stories. Over time, it changed from a
tight cadre into a disparate group of many constellations but stood
out among civil rights organizations for its participatory
democracy and emphasis on local people deciding the terms of their
battle for social change. Organizers debated their role and
grappled with SNCC's responsibility to communities, to the "walking
wounded" damaged by racial terrorism, and to individuals who died
pursuing racial justice. SNCC's Stories examines the organization's
print and publishing culture, uncovering how fundamental self- and
group narration is for the undersung heroes of social movements.
The organizer may be SNCC's dramatis persona, but its writers have
been overlooked. In the 1960s it was assumed established literary
figures would write about civil rights, and until now, critical
attention has centered on the Black Arts Movement, neglecting what
SNCC's writers contributed. Sharon Monteith gathers hard-to-find
literature where the freedom movement in the civil rights South is
analyzed as subjective history and explored imaginatively. SNCC's
print culture consists of field reports, pamphlets, newsletters,
fiction, essays, poetry, and plays, which serve as intimate and
illuminative sources for understanding political action. SNCC's
literary history contributes to the organization's legacy.
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