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...plan, as described by Howard Zinn, associate professor of government at Boston University and advisor to SNCC, would provide an opportunity for civil rights workers to take time out and discuss the movement's long-term problems...
...Zinn said that most of the workers have interrupted their education at some point, and that the plan would attempt to continue their education in a way that neither college nor the field could provide alone...
...Zinn's book is valuable as a history of the first three years of intensive, "direct action" civil rights work in the deep South. But what makes it stand out from the umpteen thousand other books on the civil rights movement written this year is that it also presents the unusual philosophy that has been born out of SNCC work...
...Zinn's book is an unbalanced glorification of SNCC, and if you dislike its idealistic attitudes, you will dislike the book. Zinn admits its failings ("It exasperates its friends almost as often as it harrasses its enemies") without dwelling on them. His implicit point, and I think it is correct, is that organizational failures aside, SNCC has done some remarkable things and has created some unusual thinking in three years...
...Zinn SNCC...