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The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC
Among histories of the civil rights movement of the 1960s there are few personal narratives better than this one. Besides being an insider's account of the rise and fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, it is an eyewitness report of the strategies and the conflicts in the crucial battle zones as the fight for racial justice raged across the South.
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289 pages
Published
October 1st 1990
by University Press of Mississippi
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SO fascinating. One of my textbooks for my Civil Rights class. It was amazing what those students went through. My teacher pointed out the hypocrisy of the organization towards the end of the movement- People were calling it the Non-Student Violent Uncoordinated Committee (which is kind of funny.)
It was kind of interesting to see the psychological strain that all the members felt around the middle of the 60s. Some people were really falling apart, and working far too hard. One of the memorable ...more
It was kind of interesting to see the psychological strain that all the members felt around the middle of the 60s. Some people were really falling apart, and working far too hard. One of the memorable ...more
Cleveland Sellers is from my home state of South Carolina, and I had the pleasure of getting to know his daughter Nosizwe while we were both medical students at MUSC. Nosizwe is also my sorority sister. Well I didn't realize the impact her Dad had on the course of the civil rights movement until she posted a picture of him meeting her as a baby for the first time while he was imprisoned for his activist involvement surrounding the Orangeburg Massacres. Nosizwe was kind enough to have her Dad aut
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Heroic, horrowing look at Sellers work as a leader in SNCC — a group I'd argue may be one of America's greatest legacies. Really enjoyed his analysis of the organizing these brave women and men did in the South in the 1960s and the openness with which he talked about how that thinking changed over time.
A very different view of the civil rights movement. If you're looking for praise of MLK and black unity, you won't find it in this book. Presents a rather complicated view of SNCC.
Jun 14, 2007
sawyer
marked it as shelved-unfinished
Clevelan Sellers was coming to give a speach on MLK Jr. day and so I read a chunk of his book to have some more background understanding. Very interesting stuff.
had to read it for a class and ended up loving it
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