- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), Civil rights, History, African Americans
Howard Zinn tells the story of one of the most important political groups in American history. SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures of those who built the fantastically influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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- Author
- Howard Zinn
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Beacon Press
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781608462995
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“For the first time in our history a major social movement, shaking the nation to its bones, is being led by youngsters.”
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, *A Young People's History of the United States*. Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist." He wrote extensively about the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement and labor history of the United States. His memoi
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