Kelefa Sanneh reviews “John Lewis: A Life,” a new book by David Greenberg, about the civil-rights leader and Georgia congressman.
In “John Lewis: A Life” , an appropriately weighty new biography, the historian David Greenberg explains what happened next. Obama’s poll numbers kept improving, and Lewis’s skepticism began to evaporate.
reorienting the group and effectively ending Lewis’s career as a professional civil-rights activist. Even in Greenberg’s careful account, the precise nature of the dispute remains obscure. The headline in the New York Times read, “MILITANTS TAKE OVER STUDENT COORDINATING GROUP,” and the accompanying story emphasized Carmichael’s disdain for both the Democrats and the Republicans. A follow-up article suggested that one of Carmichael’s initiatives was to make SNCC a fully Black group.
Carmichael published a manifesto, “Toward Black Liberation,” which suggested that the project of integration was misguided: an attempt to “siphon off the ‘acceptable’ Negroes into the surrounding middle-class white community.” What he wanted—what SNCC wanted—was self-determination.
running out of money, formed an alliance with the Black Panthers, then split with them; in the early seventies, the group disbanded. Meanwhile, Lewis kept trudging forward: he got married; settled in Atlanta; took a job at the Voter Education Project, which helped register voters across the South; and, in 1986, ran for Congress.
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