Talk:SNCC: The New Abolitionists

Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left by Martin Duberman, page 56
- published by Beacon Press✔

- Beacon Press initially suggested Zinn write a book about the NAACP✔

- Zinn suggested he do a reporting piece on the SNCC, rather than a scholarly one on the NAACP✔

- Zinn based the book largely on his own recordings and experiences with SNCC members✔

- Because it was based on his own experience, he finished it quickly, despite his hectic schedule with teaching, SNCC duties, etc

- published in 1964✔

- had mostly positive reception✔

- Duberman considers it among the strongest of Zinn's books✔

- Duberman describes it as "passionately argued, intense, and persuasive, though it has a few peripheral problems." ✔

- Duberman criticizes the non-chronological structure, which makes it hard to know what events occur when✔

- Duberman criticizes the sources, since Zinn doesn't always make clear whether Zinn is using remembered quotes or precise quotes from recordings✔

Jlevi (talk) 00:18, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

SNCC--The New Abolitionists
- "A good way to maintain your sense of the urgency of civil rights problems is to keep a copy of Howard Zinn's book handy."

- Zinn's book serves to make immediate events that may happen far away or long ago, which otherwise fade.

- unlike other intellectualized books on civil rights, this one "presents the unusual philosophy that has been born out of SNCC work."

- Still, an "unbalanced glorification"

Books of The Times
- the book was written using information from Zinn's personal life as an activist✔

Jlevi (talk) 00:25, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Modern Abolitionists
- summary: the book is about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Jlevi (talk) 00:25, 4 April 2020 (UTC)