Background
Carson, Clayborne was born on June 15, 1944 in Buffalo. Son of Clayborne Senior and Louise (Lee) Carson.
( With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the S...)
With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white repression. At its birth, SNCC was composed of black college students who shared an ideology of moral radicalism. This ideology, with its emphasis on nonviolence, challenged Southern segregation. SNCC students were the earliest civil rights fighters of the Second Reconstruction. They conducted sit-ins at lunch counters, spearheaded the freedom rides, and organized voter registration, which shook white complacency and awakened black political consciousness. In the process, Carson shows, SNCC changed from a group that endorsed white middle-class values to one that questioned the basic assumptions of liberal ideology and raised the fist for black power. Indeed, SNCC's radical and penetrating analysis of the American power structure reached beyond the black community to help spark wider social protests of the 1960s, such as the anti-Vietnam War movement. Carson's history of SNCC goes behind the scene to determine why the group's ideological evolution was accompanied by bitter power struggles within the organization. Using interviews, transcripts of meetings, unpublished position papers, and recently released FBI documents, he reveals how a radical group is subject to enormous, often divisive pressures as it fights the difficult battle for social change.
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Carson, Clayborne was born on June 15, 1944 in Buffalo. Son of Clayborne Senior and Louise (Lee) Carson.
Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967; Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975.
Acting assistant professor of history, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971-1974;
assistant professor of history, Stanford (California) U., 1974-1981;
associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1981-1990;
professor, Stanford (California) U., since 1990. Visiting associate professor Department Afro-American Studies University of California, Berkeley, 1982-1983. Landmarks Scholar in History, American U., Washington, 1990.
Fellow Ctr.Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1993-1994. Advisor Chicano] television documentary, since 1994, Freedom on My Mind documentary, 1990-1994. Visiting scholars program Woodwrow Wilson National Fellowship Found, 1988-1990, series advisor Eyes on the Prize documentary, 1985-1989.
Chair American History and Social Studies Test Development Committee College Board, 1979-1983.
( With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the S...)
Member American History Association (member program committee 1988-1989, Pacific Coast Branch program committee 1980-1981), American Studies Association, Association Documentary Editing, Association Study Afro-American Life and History, National Council Black Studies, Organization American Historians (lecturer Lectureship Program, since 1988, elected member nominating board 1986-1987, member program committee 1981-1982), Society of America Historians, Southern History Association.
Married Susan Ann Beyer, August 29, 1967. Children: David Malcolm, Temera Lea.