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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... Kennedy Library, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and especially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. I wish to thank the late Carl Braden and his wife, Anne, for allowing me to use materials from their extensive collection at the ...
... Kennedy on the defensive during the spring and summer of 1961, a small group of activists left their campuses and careers to become full-time SNCC staff members. With few resources other than their commitment, creativity, and youthful ...
... Kennedy Library , Lyndon Baines Johnson Library , and especially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin . I wish to thank the late Carl Braden and his wife , Anne , for allowing me to use materials from their extensive collection at ...
... Kennedy on the defensive during the spring and summer of 1961 , a small group of activists left their campuses and careers to become full - time SNCC staff members . With few resources other than their commitment , creativity , and ...
... Kennedy to King's wife and from Robert Kennedy to the judge handling the case un- doubtedly increased John Kennedy's black support and contributed to his narrow victory over Nixon , who chose not to involve himself . Although socialists ...
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 |