Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas

Notes

Notes Preface 1. Howard Zinn, SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1965); Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981); Cheryl Greenberg, ed., A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998); Wesley C. Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream of a New America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Zinn mentions SNCC in Arkansas seven times (11, 167, 185, 186, 214, 262, 268); Carson twice (150, 232); Greenberg, ed., once (182); and Hogan once (in the footnotes, 316). This highlights not only the collective amnesia about Arkansas SNCC in the historiography but also the fact that that amnesia has increased rather than decreased over time. 2. See, for example, William H. Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980); Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); Patrick Henry Bass, Like a Mighty Stream: The March on Washington, August 28, 1963 (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002); John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994); Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995); David J. Garrow, Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978); J. Mills Thornton, Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002); Peneil E. Joseph, Waiting Till the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (New York: Holt, 2007). 3. See, for example, Emilye Crosby, A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005); Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915–1972 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995); Cynthia Griggs Fleming, In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004); John A. Kirk, Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2002); Stephen G. N. Tuck, Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940–1980 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001). 4. The civil rights struggle in Mississippi is one of the most covered events in the historiography of the civil rights movement. In addition to Dittmer and Payne in note 2, see, for example, Kenneth T. Andrews, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004); Len Holt, The Summer That Didn’t End: The Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Project of 1964 (New York: Da Capo, 1992); Charles Marsh, God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997); Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer (New York: 251 Oxford University Press, 1988); Nicolaus Mills, Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964—The Turning Point of the Civil Rights Movement in America (Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1992). 1. 1. For accounts of the Greensboro sit-ins, see William H. Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980); William Chafe, “The Greensboro Sit-ins,” Southern Exposure 6 (Fall 1978): 78–87; Deidre B. Flowers, “The Launching of the Sit-in Movement: The Role of Black Women at Bennett College,” Journal of African American History 90 (Winter 2005): 52–63; Eugene Pfaff, “Greensboro Sit-ins,” Southern Exposure 9, no. 1 (1981): 23–28; Howell Raines, ed., My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South (New York: Putnam, 1977); Fredric Soloman and Jacob R. Fishman, “Youth and Social Action II: Action Identity Formation in the First Student Sit-in Demonstration,” Journal of Social Issues 29 (April 1964): 36–47; Miles Wolff, Lunch at the Five and Ten, The Greensboro Sit-Ins: A Contemporary History (New York: Stein and Day, 1970). 2. Overviews of the sit-ins include Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981), 9–18; Wesley C. Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream of a New America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 13...