Dan Berger: “SNCC’s Unruly Internationalism”

Writing in Boston Review, IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an article on the global imagination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The legendary civil rights organization formed in 1960 and recently had a 60th anniversary conference. Yet while many remember the organization's role in confronting Jim Crow segregation, its transnational connections often fall out of view.

"Without question, SNCC’s unparalleled bravery in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia is a heroism of epic proportions. Its legacy exemplifies the kind of tenacity necessary to secure and maintain multiracial democracy," Berger writes. "Yet SNCC’s democratic pursuits clearly were not limited to the United States."