River of No Return is the autobiography of Cleveland Sellers, who got involved in the Civil Rights movement in 1960 while still a high school student living in the completely segregated town of Denmark, South Carolina. In his remarkable book he leads the reader to understand not only what it meant to be Black in this town but also, to some extent, what it meant to be White, and why the Whites in the town were so surprised when the first anti-segregation sit-in occurred at a lunch counter in Denmark, S.C. In the process he chronicles the birth and demise of the group S.N.C.C., or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a Civil Rights group not satisfied with the N.A.C.C. P.'s willingness to accept the status quo and try to bring equality about slowly and gradually. As Sellers says, during his first sit-in, he thought it was "about the hamburger," that the goal was to get served in a non-segregated way. The book shows how his understanding of the issues grows past the idea that the goal was to eat a hamburger in the "White" section to bringing about fundamental, profound changes in American society that would bring African-Americans true equality. Sellers demonstrates that many people in the Black community of Denmark were uncomfortable with his growing activism. His mother received critical remarks about him; the President of black, local, Vorhees College was fired when the students became too active for the taste of...
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