The River of No Return,9780878054749

The River of No Return

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780878054749
ISBN10: 087805474X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1990-11-01
Publisher(s): Univ Pr of Mississippi
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"The River of No Return is, quite simply, one of the two or three most important books to come out of the Civil Rights Movement. [Sellers's] book is as timely now as it was when he wrote it nearly two decades ago."--John Dittmer.

Table of Contents

1 Growing Up in Denmark
3(15)
2 The Movement Comes to Denmark
18(15)
3 SNCC: The Beginning
33(13)
4 Courage, Commitment and Major Responsibility
46(11)
5 Howard University: The Beginning of Total Commitment
57(10)
6 Small War in Cambridge
67(14)
7 The Search
81(13)
8 The Long, Hot Summer
94(17)
9 A River of No Return
111(19)
10 Anarchists, Floaters and Hardliners
130(12)
11 Setting the House in Order: Seeking Levers of Power
142(13)
12 From Black Consciousness to Black Power
155(15)
13 A Political Nightmare: A Personal Tragedy
170(13)
14 "The best of times: the worst of times..."
183(10)
15 The End of an Era
193(11)
16 "Soon, we will not cry."
204(2)
17 The Orangeburg Massacre
206(14)
18 Prisonbound
220(9)
19 The King Is Dead
229(11)
20 SNCC Is Dead
240(13)
21 I Have Only One Life: The Struggle
253(16)
Afterword 269(10)
Index 279

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