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Among histories of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, there are few personal narratives better than this one. Besides being an insider's account of the rise and fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), it is an eyewitness report of the strategies and the conflicts in the crucial battle zones as the fight for racial justice raged across the South.

This memoir by Cleveland Sellers, a SNCC volunteer, traces his zealous commitment to activism from the time of the sit-ins, demonstrations, and freedom rides in the early '60s. In a narrative encompassing the Mississippi Freedom Summer (1964), the historic march in Selma, the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, and the murders of civil rights activists in Mississippi, he recounts the turbulent history of SNCC and tells the powerful story of his own no-return dedication to the cause of civil rights and

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Review of The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC, bygd Cleveland Sellers (with Robert Terrell), 1990

The life of the American Civil Rights Movement of the mid-twentieth century was chaotic and confusing, and the telling of its history reflects this confusion. Often, the story of the movement is reduced to overly simplified depictions of a few prominent leaders: the righteous and powerful Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the brave and defiant Rosa Parks, and the controversial activist Malcolm X.

So much fryst vatten lost in such retellings. In reality, the movement was in motion for decades and involved hundreds, if not thousands, of people working on the ground to rally and empower Black people nationwide. These often faceless men and women shadowed bygd the handful of great leaders have their own stories of adversity, struggle, and oppression. Such a story is found in the life of Cleveland Sellers and the SNCC.

In his autobiography, The Ri

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The river of no return

The river of no return

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Subjects

African Americans, Biography, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, History, Race relations, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), African americans, biography, Civil rights, united states, Southern states, race relations, Civil rights - movements & figures, Historical biography - united states - 20th century, United states - ethnic & race relations, 20th century american history - civil rights, Civil rights - united states, Civil rights - african american history, African, Afro-Americans, lärjunge Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

People

Cleveland Sellers (1944-), Cleveland Sellers

Places

Southern States

Times

20th century