From Sit-Ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in 1960s. Edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, 2012. Pp. [xiv], 200. $69.95, ISBN 978-0 8130-4151-3.) Growing out of 2010 conference in London, England, celebrating fiftieth anniversary of Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins and founding of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), From Sit-Ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in 1960s brings together an interesting and eclectic mix of essays by British scholars of American studies, plus an epilogue by prominent American historian of civil rights Steven F. Lawson. In their preface, editors Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies explain that collection is not meant as a comprehensive history of student-centered civil rights movement that was born in Greensboro (p. vii). Instead it is an exploration of selected aspects of this movement to cast light on its complex substance, development, and significance (pp. vii-viii). In this endeavor book is success, presenting multifaceted look at 1960 sit-ins, SNCC, and some of branches that grew out of those roots. Through nine essays authors present wide range of topics: delight for reader but challenge for reviewer. While all chapters have something to do with student sit-ins or SNCC, there is no other analytical continuity, making coherent review difficult. Aside from general assessments about book as whole, this space will instead be used to illuminate some of particularly interesting essays that provide new avenues of exploration, sort of amuse-bouche to entice readers to digest full volume. In second essay, Another Side of Sit-Ins: Nonviolent Direct Action, Courts, and Constitution, John Kirk tells how Little Rock, Arkansas, sit-in, arrest of five protesters, their subsequent court case, and similar cases provided possibility for U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret equal protection clause of Fourteenth Amendment. While in Civil Rights Cases (109 U.S. 3 [1883]), Court ruled that equal protection clause did not cover private individuals, organizations, or establishments, trials of arrested sit-in protesters created an opening for Court to reevaluate its earlier ruling and expand clause to cover acts of private discrimination (p. 28). Yet while segregation was eventually outlawed, end result of legal challenges brought by sit-in participants was not an expansion of equal protection clause, and Court's missed opportunity means the fundamental questions of law [that sit-in cases] raised remain as contested and unresolved fifty years later as they were then (p. 36). The third and fourth essays present two different looks at white southerners' responses and reactions to sit-ins. In 'Complicated Hospitality': The Impact of Sit-Ins on Ideology of Southern Segregationists, George Lewis looks at segregationists' violent responses to sit-ins in order to begin unpacking diversity among segregationists themselves, in their beliefs and tactics, while pointing to ways that sit-ins forced segregationists to reassess their ideology and practices. In Breaching Wall of Resistance: White Southern Reactions to Sit-Ins, Clive Webb asks similar questions about how sit-ins affected broader white South, considering multiple groups of white southerners, not just segregationists. …