The shadows of youth : the remarkable journey of the civil rights generation

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Title:

The shadows of youth : the remarkable journey of the civil rights generation

Author:

Lewis, Andrew B., 1967-

Personal Author:

Lewis, Andrew B., 1967-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Hill and Wang, [2009]

Physical Description:

356 pages ; 24 cm

Summary:

A group portrait of leading civil rights activists who comprised the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Draws on original sources to illuminate how these young Americans challenged the way America thinks about civil rights, politics, and moral obligations.

Language:

English

Contents:

Prologue : freedom high -- Qualities of youth. Sure bugs me : the civil rights generation and the failures of the 1950s ; Generation gaps : the civil rights generation and the promise of the 1950s ; The sit-in craze : how the movement got its groove back ; More than a hamburger : from student protesters to civil rights activists ; Highway 61 revisited : inroads in the Deep South ; The dreams that break your heart : Freedom Summer -- Shadows of youth. Unravelings : a generation comes apart ; Angry young men in the season of radical chic : the Black Power movement ; Exiles : the ennui of victory ; The power brokers : SNCC alumni and the making of Black political power ; Idols : the civil rights generation in power.

Corporate Subject:

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- History.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.

African American civil rights workers -- Biography.

African American college students -- Biography.

African American political activists -- Biography.

African Americans -- Biography.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.