Library Journal starred review for “Hands on the Freedom Plow”

Cover for HOLSAERT: Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Click for larger imageHands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC received a *starred* review in the October 1, 2010, issue of Library Journal.

“Powerful, inspiring, and tremendously moving, the oral histories collected here highlight the essential role women played as organizers and activists with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South of the early 1960s. . . . Essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil Rights Movement.”

The book contains 52 personal testimonies written by women in SNCC and was edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner.


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