• Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians

In Clayborne Carson SNCC has at last found a scholar capable of probing its radical and fractious nature in a manner both sympathetic and prudently critical ... Students of social protest will be deeply in the author's debt for years to come.
   --Francis M. Wilnoit, American Historical Review

To anyone who would understand SNCC, this is an essential book.
   --James Polk, Newsday

Not only an important contribution to the history of the struggle for civil rights; it also enlarges our general understanding of contemporary politics and culture.
   --Abigail Thernstrom, New Republic

This splendid history of SNCC has successfully captured the dynamic interplay of two parallel but contradictory elements ... This is a well-researched, balanced, and analytical assessment of the history of a primarily black student activist group that, with all its failings, made its special contribution to the political awakening of American blacks and to the changing of American institutions and practices.
   --Abraham Holtzman, American Political Science Review

Clayborne Carson is Professor of History at Stanford University and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project.

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• The Harvard Guide to African-American History, Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.