Civil Rights Teaching: SNCC

Here is a selection for learning more about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt

By Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom

By William Henry Chafe

Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement

By Constance Curry

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

By Barbara Ransby

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

By Susie Erenrich (Editor)

The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

By Jon Hale

Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark

By Katherine Mellen Charron

Freshwater Road

By Denise Nicholas

The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care

By John Dittmer

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

By Faith S. Holsaert (Editor), Martha Prescod Norman Noonan (Editor), Judy Richardson (Editor)

I've Got The Light Of Freedom

By Charles M. Payne

Lessons from Freedom Summer: Ordinary People Building Extraordinary Movements

By Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold, Sylvia Braselmann

Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986

By J. Todd Moye

Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Freedom School Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer

By Elizabeth Martinez (Editor), Julian Bond (Foreword by)

A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi

By Emilye Crosby

Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

By John Dittmer

The Making of Black Revolutionaries: Illustrated Edition

By James Forman, Julian Bond (Foreword by)

Many Minds, One Heart: Sncc's Dream for a New America

By Wesley C. Hogan

On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

By Charles E. Cobb Jr

Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching: A Resource Guide for Classrooms and Communities

By Deborah Menkart (Editor)

Race Man Selected Works, 1960-2015

By Julian Bond

Radical Equations: Bring the Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement to America's Schools

By Robert Moses, Charles E. Cobb

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael

By Stokely Carmichael, Michael Ekwueme Thelwell (With), John Edgar Wideman (Introduction by)

The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC

By Cleveland Sellers, Robert Terrell (With)

Silver Rights

By Constance Curry, Marian Wright Edelman (Introduction by)

Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs

By Guy Carawan (Editor), Candie Carawan (Editor), Julian Bond (Foreword by)

SNCC: The New Abolitionists

By Howard Zinn

Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson

By Cynthia Griggs Fleming

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

By Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America

By Peniel E. Joseph

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

By John Lewis, Michael D'Orso

We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi

By Tracy Sugarman

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