Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America Book

Abbreviations xi

Introduction 1

Part 1 A Movement Education

1 The Nonviolent Anvil 13

2 Come Get My Mattress and I'll Keep My Soul: Freedom Riding 45

3 The Inner Life of Recruiting 56

Part 2 How Democracy Travels

4 Bridges to the North 95

5 Testing the Southern Blueprint 117

6 SNCC Teaches SDS How to Act 133

Part 3 Delta Civics: Fashioning a New America

7 The Core Struggle 143

8 The High Summer of Transformation 155

Part 4 Movement Ecology

9 Contact with Power: Atlantic City 185

10 Desperate Initiatives: Waveland 197

11 Vertigo 219

12 Not Quite There: The Search for Enduring Ground 226

Conclusion: Freedom as an Inside Job 235

After word: Beyond Sacred Ground 256

Appendix A We'll Never Turn Back: Freedom Songs 259

Appendix B Affidavits 261

Appendix C The Other Sacred Ground 264

Appendix D Incidents of Violence against Voter Registration Activities in Mississippi, 1964 268

Appendix E James Forman's Speech at Waveland, November 1964 273

Appendix F Suggested Structures for SNCC, November 1964 277

Appendix G Structure Debate at Waveland 283

Appendix H SNCC as the Borning Struggle 284

Notes 295

Bibliography 395

Acknowledgments 435

Index 439