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- Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) arrived in Arkansas in October 1962 at the request of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, the state affiliate of the Southern Regional Council. SNCC efforts began with Bill Hansen, a young white Ohioan--already an early veteran of the civil rights movement--who traveled to Little Rock in the early sixties to help stimulate student sit-in movements promoting desegregation. Thanks in large part to SNCC's bold initiatives, most of Little Rock's public and private facilities were desegregated by 1963, and in the years that followed many more SNCC volunteers rushed to the state to set up projects across the Arkansas Delta to help empower local people to take a stand against racial discrimination. In the five short years before it disbanded, the SNCC's Arkansas Project played a pivotal part in transforming the state, yet this fascinating branch of the national organization has barely garnered a footnote in the history of the civil rights movement. This collection serves as a corrective by bringing articles on SNCC's activities in Arkansas together for the first time, by providing powerful firsthand testimonies, and by collecting key historical documents from SNCC's role in the region's emergence from the slough of southern injustice.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- I
- II
- 6. Arkansas Daze
- pp. 87-100
- 7. Excerpts from an Interview with Jim Jones
- pp. 101-106
- 8. Arkansas Roots and Consciousness
- pp. 107-114
- 9. Maeby Civil Rights
- pp. 115-125
- 11. Lessons from SNCC—Arkansas 1965
- pp. 132-138
- Image Plates
- p. 139
- 12. An E-mail Interview with Tim Janke
- pp. 139-141
- 13. An Interview with Millard “Tex” Lowe
- pp. 142-147
- 14. Arkansas SNCC Memories
- pp. 148-154
- 15. An Interview with Gertrude Jackson
- pp. 155-159
- 16. My Arkansas Journey
- pp. 160-165
- 17. The Civil Rights Movement in Pine Bluff
- pp. 166-174
- III
- 18. “Up Against the Obstacles” (1960)
- pp. 177-178
- 24. “Annual Report” (1964)
- pp. 194-201
- 31. “82% Negro; 100% White” (1965)
- pp. 220-223
- 36. Press Statement: Rev. Ben Grinage (1966)
- pp. 237-239
- 37. “Black Power—Another Definition” (1966)
- pp. 240-242
- 38. “Arkansas Staff Meeting” (1966)
- pp. 243-246
- Contributors
- pp. 277-278
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610754828
Related ISBN(s)
9781557289667, 9781557289681
MARC Record
OCLC
787842830
Pages
319
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No