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: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

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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