{"product_id":"the-shadows-of-youth-the-remarkable-journey-of-the-civil-rights-generation-paperback","title":"The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew B. Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the lives of Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Bob Zellner, Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and their contemporaries, \u003ci\u003eThe Shadows of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e provides a carefully woven group biography of the activists who--under the banner of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee--challenged the way Americans think about civil rights, politics, and moral obligation in an unjust democracy. A wealth of original sources and oral interviews allows the historian Andrew B. Lewis to recover the sweeping narrative of the civil rights movement, from its origins in the youth culture of the 1950s to the near present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe teenagers who spontaneously launched sit-ins across the South in the summer of 1960 became the SNCC activists and veterans without whom the civil rights movement could not have succeeded. \u003ci\u003eThe Shadows of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e replaces a story centered on the achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. with one that unearths the cultural currents that turned a disparate group of young adults into, in Nash's term, skilled freedom fighters. Their dedication to radical democratic possibility was transformative. In the trajectory of their lives, from teenager to adult, is visible the entire arc of the most decisive era of the American civil rights movement, and \u003ci\u003eThe Shadows of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e for the first time establishes the centrality of their achievement in the movement's accomplishments.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew B. Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e teaches history at Wesleyan University. His books include \u003ci\u003eGonna Sit at the Welcome Table: A Documentary History of the Civil Rights Movement\u003c\/i\u003e, with Julian Bond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52612024303923,"sku":"9780374532406","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bzJrY2pPQXUrNS96MmFVcDFYeWJmdz09.webp?v=1761843397","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-shadows-of-youth-the-remarkable-journey-of-the-civil-rights-generation-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}