Readers are privy to their analyses of the Movement, its tactics, strategies, and underlying philosophies. The women in SNCC acquired new skills, experienced personal growth, sustained one another, and even had fun in the midst of serious struggle. These intense stories depict women, many very young, dealing with extreme fear and finding the remarkablestrength to survive. Since the women spent time in the Deep South, many also describe risking their lives through beatings and arrests and witnessing unspeakable violence. The testimonies gathered here present a sweeping personal history of SNCC: early sit-ins, voter registration campaigns, and Freedom Rides the 1963 March on Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the movements in Alabama and Maryland and Black Power and antiwar activism.

About the BookIn Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women-northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina-share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement.

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