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Author Lewis, Andrew B., 1967-

Title The shadows of youth : the remarkable journey of the civil rights generation / Andrew B. Lewis.

Publication Info. New York : Hill and Wang, 2009.
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 Moore Stacks  E185.615 .L47755 2009    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 356 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-335) and index.
Contents Prologue : freedom high -- Qualities of youth. Sure bugs me : the civil rights generation and the failures of the 1950s ; Generation gaps : the civil rights generation and the promise of the 1950s ; The sit-in craze : how the movement got its groove back ; More than a hamburger : from student protesters to civil rights activists ; Highway 61 revisited : inroads in the Deep South ; The dreams that break your heart : Freedom Summer -- Shadows of youth. Unravelings : a generation comes apart ; Angry young men in the season of radical chic : the Black Power movement ; Exiles : the ennui of victory ; The power brokers : SNCC alumni and the making of Black political power ; Idols : the civil rights generation in power.
Summary A group portrait of leading civil rights activists who comprised the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Draws on original sources to illuminate how these young Americans challenged the way America thinks about civil rights, politics, and moral obligations.
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
African American civil rights workers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African American college students -- Biography.
African American college students.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American political activists -- Biography.
African American political activists.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements.
United States.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Race relations.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9780809085989 hardcover alkaline paper
0809085984

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