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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activities in Arkansas together for the first time, by providing powerful firsthand testimonies, and by collecting key historical documents from SNCC's role in the region's emergence from the slough of southern injustice.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Note on the Title
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. I
  1. 1. The Origins of SNCC in Arkansas: Little Rock, Lupper, and the Law
  2. pp. 3-22
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  1. 2. In the Storm: William Hansen and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, 1962–1967
  2. pp. 23-34
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  1. 3. “It Was the Wrong Time, and They Just Weren’t Ready”: Direct-Action Protest in Pine Bluff, 1963
  2. pp. 35-53
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  1. 4. Crossing the White Line: SNCC in Three Delta Towns, 1963–1967
  2. pp. 54-68
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  1. 5. Replicating History in a Bad Way? White Activists and Black Power in SNCC’s Arkansas Project
  2. pp. 69-84
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  1. II
  1. 6. Arkansas Daze
  2. pp. 87-100
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  1. 7. Excerpts from an Interview with Jim Jones
  2. pp. 101-106
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  1. 8. Arkansas Roots and Consciousness
  2. pp. 107-114
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  1. 9. Maeby Civil Rights
  2. pp. 115-125
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  1. 10. Excerpts from an Interview with Bob Cableton
  2. pp. 126-131
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  1. 11. Lessons from SNCC—Arkansas 1965
  2. pp. 132-138
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  1. Image Plates
  2. p. 139
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  1. 12. An E-mail Interview with Tim Janke
  2. pp. 139-141
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  1. 13. An Interview with Millard “Tex” Lowe
  2. pp. 142-147
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  1. 14. Arkansas SNCC Memories
  2. pp. 148-154
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  1. 15. An Interview with Gertrude Jackson
  2. pp. 155-159
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  1. 16. My Arkansas Journey
  2. pp. 160-165
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  1. 17. The Civil Rights Movement in Pine Bluff
  2. pp. 166-174
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  1. III
  1. 18. “Up Against the Obstacles” (1960)
  2. pp. 177-178
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  1. 19. “The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee”
  2. pp. 179-181
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  1. 20. “Field Report, Pine Bluff, Arkansas” (1963)
  2. pp. 182-185
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  1. 21. Press Releases: “Students Attacked with Ammonia in Pine Bluff” (1963) and “Pine Bluff Movies, Schools, Park Open to All” (1963)
  2. pp. 186-188
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  1. 22. Letter to Ruthie Hansen from Bill Hansen (1964)
  2. pp. 189-190
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  1. 23. “Field Report, Phillips, Monroe, Arkansas and Lee Counties”
  2. pp. 191-193
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  1. 24. “Annual Report” (1964)
  2. pp. 194-201
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  1. 25. “Hansen Resigns SNCC Post; Says Negroes Should Lead But He’ll Stay as Adviser” (1964)
  2. pp. 202-204
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  1. 26. An Open Letter from Representatives of the Forrest City (Arkansas) Movement (1965)
  2. pp. 205-209
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  1. 27. Ozell Sutton v. Capitol Club, Inc. (1965)
  2. pp. 210-212
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  1. 28. Letter to Arkansas Summer Project Applicant (1965)
  2. pp. 214-215
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  1. 29. Letter to Collin Minert from James O. Jones (1965)
  2. pp. 216-217
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  1. 30. “What to Bring with You” and “Orientation Schedule” (1965)
  2. pp. 218-219
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  1. 31. “82% Negro; 100% White” (1965)
  2. pp. 220-223
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  1. 32. Letter to “Dear Friend” from Jim Jones (1965)
  2. pp. 224-225
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  1. 33. “What We Shall Overcome Means to Me” (1965)
  2. pp. 226-227
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  1. 34. Journal Entry by Mitchell Zimmerman (1965)
  2. pp. 228-231
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  1. 35. Letter from Rev. Benjamin S. Grinage to John A. Hannah (1966)
  2. pp. 232-236
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  1. 36. Press Statement: Rev. Ben Grinage (1966)
  2. pp. 237-239
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  1. 37. “Black Power—Another Definition” (1966)
  2. pp. 240-242
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  1. 38. “Arkansas Staff Meeting” (1966)
  2. pp. 243-246
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  1. 39. “Ex-workers for SNCC Tell Why Group Faded in State” (1967)
  2. pp. 247-250
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 251-276
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  1. Contributors
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  1. Index
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