Variety reports today that Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work – Non- Fiction.  Other nominees include:

Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell (SmileyBooks)
Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History by Dr. Julianne Malveaux (Last Word Productions, Inc.)
The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter (W.W. Norton & Company)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (The New Press)

The NAACP Image Awards is the nation’s premier multi-cultural awards show celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts (television, recording, literature, motion picture and writing & directing), as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors.

This year’s event will be broadcast live March 4th at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. central) on Fox.