It’s an important, neglected question. The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was the sharp edge of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. My friend Professor Martin Oppenheimer provides a compact history. SNCC leaders included former Congressman John Lewis, Julian Bond, and Stokely Carmichael.
I haven't read this book, but I would recommend for anyone interested in SNCC that they read "Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights" by Robert Moses, one of the geniuses in SNCC (it's the closest he ever came to a memoir/history of SNCC), Wesley Hogan's "Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America", and Clayborne Carson's "In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s" and watch "Freedom on My Mind" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_on_My_Mind. A very different perspective is available in "Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael" by Kwame Toure (Carmichael) with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
I wasn't there, either, but I have been lucky enough to know pretty well some people who were. . . .
I haven't read this book, but I would recommend for anyone interested in SNCC that they read "Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights" by Robert Moses, one of the geniuses in SNCC (it's the closest he ever came to a memoir/history of SNCC), Wesley Hogan's "Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America", and Clayborne Carson's "In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s" and watch "Freedom on My Mind" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_on_My_Mind. A very different perspective is available in "Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael" by Kwame Toure (Carmichael) with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
I wasn't there, either, but I have been lucky enough to know pretty well some people who were. . . .
--Rob Chametzky
Thanks. Two more names that pop up more than once in Oppenheimer are Cleveland Sellers and Robert Zellner. And of course James Forman.