The SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference is pleased to announce the
participants in the “Meet the Author” Program on Thursday evening
April 15, 2010 at the Marriott Raleigh Crabtree Valley Hotel
SNCC Authors:
- Robert Zellner –
Wrong Side of Murder Creek
(2008)
- Connie Curry –
Silver Rights; Deep in our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom
Movement
- John Lewis –
Walking with the Wind
- Lawrence Guyot and Jenice View –
Putting
the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching
- Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez –
Letters from Mississippi
(reissued 2008)
- D’Army Bailey -
The Education of A Black
Radical; A Southern Civil Rights Activist's Journey,
1959-1964
- Michele D. Gibbs –
Line of Sight (2004)
- Guy and Candie Carawan –
Sing for Freedom: The Story of the
Civil Rights Movement Through its Songs (reissued 2008);
and "Sing for Freedom: The Story
of the Civil Rights Movement through its Songs." (CD)
- Robert P. Moses –
Radical Equations Math Literacy
and Civil Rights
- Mary King –
Freedom Song
- Ekwueme Michael Thelwell –
Ready
for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
(2003)
- Cleve Sellers –
River of No Return
- Charles Cobb –
On the Road to Freedom: A Guided
Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
- Peter de Lissovoy -
Randy Battle and the Great Pool
Jump, and Other Stories of the Civil Rights Movement in
Southwest Georgia
(2010)
- Danny Lyon –
Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
(reissued 2010)
- John Perdew –
Education of a Harvard Guy
(2010)
- Mike Miller -
A
Community Organizer’s Tale: People and Power in San Francisco
(2009)
- Susan Erenrich, editor -
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: An
Anthology Of The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
- Gloria House-
Shrines (poetry) 2004, and
A Different Image: The Legacy of
Broadside Press, 2005.
- Bernice Johnson Reagon –
If You Don’t Go Don’t Hinder Me.
And multiple CDs, including Sweet Honey in the Rock.
- Judy Richardson, producer - “Eyes
on the Prize Box Set: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965”
- A.B. Spellman –
Things I Must Have Known
(poetry)
- Sandra Adickes –
The Legacy of a Freedom School
Books about SNCC:
- John Dittmer –
Local People: The
Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi; The Good Doctors: The
Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social
Justice in Health Care
- Charles Payne –
I've Got the Light
of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom
Struggle
- Hasan Kwame Jeffries –
Bloody
Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt
- Wesley Hogan –
Many Minds, One
Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America
- Barbara Ransby -
Ella Baker and the Black
Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
- Cynthia Fleming –
Soon we will not
cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson (1998);
and Yes We Did! From King’s Dream
to Obama’s Promise.
- Tracy Sugarman –
We had Sneakers,
They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in
Mississippi (2009)
- Peniel Joseph –
Waiting ‘til the
Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America;
also, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
- William Chafe –
Civilities and Civil
Rights: Greensboro NC and the Black Struggle for Freedom
- Clayborne Carson –
In Struggle: SNCC
and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
- Todd Moye – Let the People Decide:
Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower
County, Mississippi 1945-1986; also,
Freedom Flyers: The
Tuskegee Airmen of WWII (2010).
- Emilye Crosby -
A Little Taste of Freedom, the
Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi
All of these authors will be at the “Meet the Authors” program to
talk, sign their books, and answer questions. Quail Ridge Books of
Raleigh will be handling the sales of the books. Quail Ridge Books
will take credit cards, but will not take out of state checks. They
can ship your purchases for you. This is a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet all these authors who have
written about SNCC in one place and to build and add to your
personal book collection.
*Also available for purchase will be:
SNCC The New Abolitionists by
Howard Zinn;
Die Nigger Die!: A Political
Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (Paperback); and
The
Making of Black Revolutionaries (paperback; forward by Julian Bond)
by James Forman