Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.

EDITED BY FAITH S. HOLSAERT; MARTHA PRESCOD NORMAN NOONAN; JUDY RICHARDSON; BETTY GARMAN ROBINSON; JEAN SMITH YOUNG; DOROTHY M. ZELLNER,.

$400.00

Item Number: 145216

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.

First edition of these powerful testimonies gathered presented sweeping a personal history of SNCC. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed in the year of publication by Jean Smith Young on the front free endpaper, “To Ms. T… Ella Peniston, I hope you enjoy this book. Onward, Jean Smith Young November, 2010.” Jean Smith Young is an American psychiatrist, writer, and civil rights activist. After joining the Nonviolent Action Group during her study at Howard University, Young became involved as a fieldworker in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1964, she led a voter registration drive in Philadeplphia, Mississippi, a project which was met with violent opposition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph of the editors by Tamio Wakayama.

In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. "These women's lives, spent in the freedom struggle, call to us. Their political insight and creativity make them American heroines; their strategic vision allows them to point a better way forward for all, worldwide, who aspire to equaity and democracy" (Wesley C. Hogan, author of 'Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America').