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

From Sit-ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s by Iwan W. Morgan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is a look at the rise and fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) through the lens of 10 different essays. Each essay concentrates on a different view of the impact of the student-led protests starting with the 1960 Greensboro sit-in that led to the organization of SNCC. Topics covered include the effects of the sit-ins on white southern segregationists, the black power movement, the British and international civil rights movements, fictional writing by activists, and the election of Barack Obama.

SNCC may have gone by the wayside, but the impact of the direct action peaceful protests of the 1960s is still seen today. This book is really more about SNCC than it is about the sit-ins, but it was these protests that brought the organization together and started a wave of student activism.

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