Hands on the freedom plow
Subtitle: personal accounts by women in SNCC
By: edited by Faith S. Holsaert ... [et at.].
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780252035579
Description: Fifty-two women - northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina - share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. The testimonies cover early sit-ins, voter registration campaigns, and Freedom Rides; the 1963 March on Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the Movements in Alabama and Maryland; Black Power and anti-war activism. --publisher's description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Fighting for my rights : one SNCC woman's experience, 1961-1964; title: pt. 2. Entering troubled waters : sit-ins, the founding of SNCC, and the freedom rides, 1960-1963; title: pt. 3. Movement leaning posts : the heart and soul of the southwest Georgia movement, 1961-1963; title: pt. 4. Standing tall : the southwest Georgia movement, 1962-1963; title: pt. 5. Get on board : the Mississippi movement through the Atlantic City challenge, 1961-1964; title: pt. 6. Cambridge, Maryland : the movement under attack, 1961-1964; title: pt. 7. A sense of family : the National SNCC Office, 1960-1964; title: pt. 8. Fighting another day : the Mississippi movement after Atlantic City, 1964-1966; title: pt. 9. The constant struggle : the Alabama movement, 1963-1966; title: Black power : issues of continuity, change, and personal identity, 1964-1969.