Word: zinn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zinn's book is valuable as a history of the first three years of intensive, "direct action" civil rights work in the deep South. But what makes it stand out from the umpteen thousand other books on the civil rights movement written this year is that it also presents the unusual philosophy that has been born out of SNCC work...
...good way to maintain your sense of the urgency of civil rights problems is to keep a copy of Howard Zinn's book handy. When you begin protesting that federal troops in McComb might cost Johnson votes in North Carolina, turn to a passage like this one, describing SNCC workers' attempts to feed would-be voters who had been waiting all day to register in Selma...
...Zinn's book is an unbalanced glorification of SNCC, and if you dislike its idealistic attitudes, you will dislike the book. Zinn admits its failings ("It exasperates its friends almost as often as it harrasses its enemies") without dwelling on them. His implicit point, and I think it is correct, is that organizational failures aside, SNCC has done some remarkable things and has created some unusual thinking in three years...
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