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How and why Did Women in SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Author a Pathbreaking Feminist Manifesto, 1964-1965?
This document project examines the origins and authorship of the 1964 SNCC memo, "women in the movement," placing that manifesto within the broader historical context of evolving gender and race relations in SNCC during Freedom Summer. Drawing on an array of hitherto unexamined documents, this project follows the experiences of Elaine DeLott Baker and other women activists who worked out of Jackson, Mississippi and addresses the broader significance and impact of the memo.
A Liberal Education
Abbott Gleason's insightful memoir of the generation that came of age in the late fifties.
Many Minds, One Heart
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 highl...
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting
This “excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century” challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy (Times Literary Supplement). Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta upends the notion that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have often used bottom-up decision making as a powerful tool for political change. Polletta traces the history of democracy from early la...
Going South
Compelling first-hand stories of Jewish women fighting racism in the American south while coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust.
Getting to Graduation
What will it take to achieve President Obama’s higher education completion agenda? The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently laid out a national “completion agenda” with the goal of making the U.S. the best-educated nation in the world by the year 2020. Getting to Graduation explores the reforms that we must pursue to recover a position of international leadership in higher education as well as the obstacles to those reforms. T...
The Trouble Between Us
Focusing on white and black women, this book examines the feminist movement to ask why, given the roots of second wave feminism in the civil rights movement, a racially integrated women's liberation movement didn't develop in the 1960s and 70s in the United States.
Deep in Our Hearts
This eloquent and powerful book takes readers into the lives of nine young women -- through first-person accounts -- who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice.
SNCC's Stories
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 pa...
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism
A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.
