In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New Introduction and Epilogue by the AuthorHarvard University Press, 1995 M04 3 - 384 pages With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC’s evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white oppression. |
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... central theme is the evolution of SNCC's radicalism . This process involved both conflict and consensus , for SNCC was not a homogeneous sect organized around a single set of beliefs . Staff members questioned not only the assumptions ...
... reconciles doubt . Mutual regard cancels enmity . Justice for all overthrows injustice . The redemptive community supersedes sys- tems of gross social immorality . Love is the central motif of nonviolence . Love is GETTING ORGANIZED 23.
... central motif of nonviolence . Love is the force by which God binds man to Himself and man to man . Such love goes to the ex- treme ; it remains loving and forgiving even in the midst of hostility . It matches the capacity of evil to ...
... central point of contact with southern black activists . The director of NSA's southern programs , Constance Curry , was particularly helpful in SNCC's early months , offering the use of NSA equipment and facilities in Atlanta at a time ...
... protests outside their own communities could they begin to revive and extend the social struggle that had already become a central focus of their lives . 3. FREEDOM RIDES At the end of 1960 SNCC was 30 COMING TOGETHER.
Contents
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Radical Cadre in McComb | 45 |
The Albany Movement | 56 |
Sustaining the Struggle | 66 |
Breaking New Ground | 153 |
The New Left | 175 |
Racial Separatism | 191 |
Part Three Falling Apart | 213 |
Black Power | 215 |
Internal Conflicts | 229 |
White Repression | 244 |
Seeking New Allies | 265 |
March on Washington | 83 |
Planning for Confrontation | 96 |
Mississippi Challenge | 111 |
Part Two Looking Inward | 131 |
Waveland Retreat | 133 |
Decline of Black Radicalism | 287 |
Epilogue | 305 |
Notes | 307 |
Index | 347 |