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SNCC: The New Abolitionists
by
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn tells the story of one of the most important political groups in American history. SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures of those who built the fantastically influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It is considered an indispensable study of...more
Paperback, 312 pages
Published
September 1st 2002
by South End Press
(first published 1985)
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This was my second Howard Zinn. It sheds light on Civil Rights Struggle in the early 1960s. It talks about the freedom riders, freedom walks, and SNCC workers going into the deep south to organize and register black folks to vote. Zinn talks about the absurdity of the lack of justice system. How the Federal government created inalienable rights but did not create a body to enforce them. The Kennedy administration declared that it was up to local law enforcement to enforce anti discrimination pra...more
This book was awesome.
The first portion of the book is devoted to recounting the efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in working towards an integrated, equal society and the violent repression they were met with. Zinn does this in a cool, matter of fact style much like a reporter recounting a days events. The extreme violence, repression and sacrifice SNCC workers and the communities they worked in endured during voter registration efforts should serve as a reminder why the...more
The first portion of the book is devoted to recounting the efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in working towards an integrated, equal society and the violent repression they were met with. Zinn does this in a cool, matter of fact style much like a reporter recounting a days events. The extreme violence, repression and sacrifice SNCC workers and the communities they worked in endured during voter registration efforts should serve as a reminder why the...more
An interesting first-hand by a historian.
nice short book about SNCC and Zinn's history with them. written in 1964, so it comes from a very particular political landscape and doesn't much go beyond freedom songs and nonviolent civil disobedience. period piece.
This was Howard Zinn's first book. Written almost as soon as the history happened. No benefit of hindsight, just incisive, clear headed analysis.
Howard Zinn's account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the shock troops of the Civil Rights Movement
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Howard Zinn was a historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and was a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. He received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs...more
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