From Sit-Ins to SNCC

Iwan Morgan, professor of US Studies and Commonwealth Fund chair of American History at the University College London, is the author of numerous books including The Age of Deficits.Philip Davies, director of the British Library’s Eccles Center for American Studies, has written widely in U.S. politics and is coeditor of America’s Americans: Population Issues in U.S. Politics and Society.

“Central to the collection’s theme is the idea that [SNCC] was diffuse with different visions, and not a hierarchy. The approach was local, and the results hinged on the locality. . . . Adds much to the discussion of the nonviolent resistance movement.” —Choice“Provides fresh and original insights into the student protest movement of the 1960s. A must for anyone interested in the history of the SNCC or the civil rights struggle.” —Kevern Verney, Edge Hill University