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Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America
How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant 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 and Black Power movement of which it was a part.
As Hogan chronicles, the members of SNCC created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom, including the sit-ins of 1960, the rejuvenated Freedom Rides of 1961, and grassroots democracy projects in Georgia and Mississippi. She highlights several key players--including Charles Sherrod, Bob Moses, and Fannie Lou Hamer--as innovators of grassroots activism and democratic practice.
Breaking new ground, Hogan shows how SNCC laid the foundation for the emergence of the New Left and created new definitions of political leadership during the civil rights and Vietnam eras. She traces the ways other social movements--such as Black Power, women's liberation, and the antiwar movement--adapted practices developed within SNCC to apply to their particular causes. Many Minds, One Heart ultimately reframes the movement and asks us to look anew at where America stands on justice and equality today.
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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 leadership during the civil rights and Vietnam eras. Hogan traces the ways other social movements--such as Black Power, women's liberation, and the antiwar movement--adapted practices developed within SNCC to apply to their particular causes.
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As Hogan chronicles, the members of SNCC created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom, including the sit-ins of 1960, the rejuvenated Freedom Rides of 1961, and grassroots democracy projects in Georgia and Mississippi. She highlights several key players--including Charles Sherrod, Bob Moses, and Fannie Lou Hamer--as innovators of grassroots activism and democratic practice.
Breaking new ground, Hogan shows how SNCC laid the foundation for the emergence of the New Left and created new definitions of political leadership during the civil rights and Vietnam eras. She traces the ways other social movements--such as Black Power, women's liberation, and the antiwar movement--adapted practices developed within SNCC to apply to their particular causes. Many Minds, One Heart ultimately reframes the movement and asks us to look anew at where America stands on justice and equality today.
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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 leadership during the civil rights and Vietnam eras. Hogan traces the ways other social movements--such as Black Power, women's liberation, and the antiwar movement--adapted practices developed within SNCC to apply to their particular causes.
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480 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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October 11, 2022
3.5 rounded up
March 7, 2021
The best book on the Civil Rights Movement I have read (and as a history major, I've read quite a few).
June 10, 2022
An interesting look at SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and the Civil Rights movement during the late 1950s and 1960s.
This book talks about how SNCC worked, philosophies, where it failed or had troubles, leaders and members of SNCC, and the affect it had on future movements in the U.S. While talking about the good aspects of SNCC, this book also calls out the not-so-successful aspects, where there was dissent among the group, and how history has overlooked both the positive and negative aspects of the group and its work.
This book talks about how SNCC worked, philosophies, where it failed or had troubles, leaders and members of SNCC, and the affect it had on future movements in the U.S. While talking about the good aspects of SNCC, this book also calls out the not-so-successful aspects, where there was dissent among the group, and how history has overlooked both the positive and negative aspects of the group and its work.
February 23, 2008
Sort of bizarrely sentimental and the argument falls apart at the end, but competently tells the story of the development of SNCC's political philosophy and how racism (both the escalation of white-supremacist violence and the arrogance and romantic racism of white activists) fragmented and destroyed the organization.
March 14, 2013
Excellent scholarship, but ultimately destined to be read only by other scholars and college students assigned the book. A great topic, but 200 pages was appendices, notes and index. Many good observations on what made the SNCC work and why it eventually dissolved, but very dense, citing too many names, dates, and locations to follow without taking notes.
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