The River of No Return

by Sellers, Cleveland

• ISBN13: 9780878054749
• ISBN10: 087805474X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-11-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

"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