As Wesley Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existential challenges, increasingly it is young people in the United States and around the world who are finding new ways of belonging, collaboration, and survival.
Focusing on the transformative impact of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1960 to 1965, this study delves into how SNCC dismantled the caste system in the American South. Wesley Hogan provides a detailed analysis of SNCC's internal dynamics and its role within the broader civil rights and Black Power movements, highlighting the organization's achievements and the social change it catalyzed in a remarkably short period.