| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America. By Wesley C. Hogan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 463 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3074-1.)
Now that the basic stories of the modern civil rights movement are well known, scholars have begun to devote more attention to its inner dynamics, local details, and even psychological processes. Wesley C. Hogan's new book on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) not only retells its inspiring, roller-coaster history but also assesses its choices, shifts, strategies, and approaches in order to explore SNCC's complex and potent legacy. Simultaneously a gripping (although familiar) story, a how-to organizing manual, and a thoughtful political assessment, Many Minds, One Heart is one of the best of the new histories of the civil rights movement.	1
James Lawson's nonviolence workshops, the bedrock of SNCC, did not simply change the rules of segregation, they "innovated concrete ways to throw over an entire array of deferential behavior and ideas" helping participants "move from private talk to public action" (p. 23). Hogan's work explores those innovations, why they succeeded, and when they failed. We thus learn not only of the abuses many activists endured but also of the transformative power of those experiences. Hogan unpacks meetings and debates, argument by argument, to explore how consensus was built, how individuals learned to transcend personal and political differences and act in the face of overwhelming counter-force and debilitating fear.	. . .

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