From Sit-Ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

Contents

Contents Preface vii 1. The New Movement: The Student Sit-Ins in 1960 1 Iwan Morgan 2. Another Side of the Sit-Ins: Nonviolent Direct Action, the Courts, and the Constitution 23 John Kirk 3. “Complicated Hospitality”: The Impact of the Sit-Ins on the Ideology of Southern Segregationists 41 George Lewis 4. Breaching the Wall of Resistance: White Southern Reactions to the Sits-Ins 58 Clive Webb 5. SNCCs: Not One Committee, but Several 81 Peter Ling 6. SNCC’s Stories at the Barricades 97 Sharon Monteith 7. From Beloved Community to Imagined Community: SNCC’s Intellectual Transformation 116 Joe Street 8. The Sit-Ins, SNCC, and Cold War Patriotism 135 Simon Hall 9. From Greensboro to Notting Hill: The Sit-Ins in England 153 Stephen Tuck Epilogue. Still Running for Freedom: Barack Obama and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement 171 Steven F. Lawson List of Contributors 187 Index 191 This page intentionally left blank ...