Meet the Authors — 18 One on One Interviews Available to Registrants from October 11 until January 9, 2022!pic.twitter.com/EgPiMBcFSu
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Since their service in SNCC in the 1960's, many SNCC veterans have penned memoirs and studies of their time in the Southern Civil Rights Movement. We have gathered 19 of these authors for one-on-one interviews about their work and their books.
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These are the people who were 'on the ground' with SNCC in Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and North and South Carolina. Their first person accounts bring the history and legacy of SNCC to life for today's readers and activists.
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A special thanks to the volunteer interviewers: Dr. Geri Augusto (Brown University); Dr. Wesley Hogan (Duke); Dr. Emilye Crosby (SUNY Geneseo); Jennifer Lawson (SNCC Legacy Project), Larry Rubin (SNCC Legacy Project), and Danita Mason-Hogans (Duke).
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC includes the testimonies of 52 women – southern and northern; urban and rural; Black, white, and Latina – who share their courageous stories of organizing with SNCC on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement.pic.twitter.com/ZSSlojrGKr
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The editors – 3 Black, 3 white – spent 15 years gathering and editing these stories. As one contributor said: “In SNCC I felt I could do anything I was big enough to do.”
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The book is now available in hardback, paper and as an e-book (Univ. of Ill. Press). Hands on the Freedom Plow is available for purchase at
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