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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... Lewis, Margaret Long, Worth Long, Allard Lowenstein, Bob Mants, Joe Martin, Jack Minnis, Ethel Minor, Jesse Morris, Ernest Nobles, John O'Neal, Gwen Patton, Willie Peacock, John Perdew, David Richmond, Willie Ricks, Reginald J. Robinson ...
... Lewis , Margaret Long , Worth Long , Allard Lowenstein , Bob Mants , Joe Martin , Jack Minnis , Ethel Minor , Jesse Morris , Ernest Nobles , John O'Neal , Gwen Patton , Willie Peacock , John Perdew , David Richmond , Willie Ricks ...
... Lewis and James Forman , ca. 1963 Danny Lyon , Magnum Photos Stokely Carmichael during voter registration drive in Lowndes County , Alabama , 1965 Doug Harris 152 Floyd McKissick , Martin Luther King , and Stokely Carmichael lead- ing ...
... Lewis , was one of several black ministerial students at American Baptist Theological Seminary who had begun to view Christianity as a rationale of racial protest . Born in a tenant house near Troy , Alabama , and one of ten children of ...
... Lewis , and Bevel , who were interested in using nonviolent tactics to achieve desegregation in downtown dining facilities . During the fall of 1959 , they staged test sit - ins in an unsuccessful attempt to prod Nashville businessmen ...
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 |