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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... Moses and other SNCC workers urging black residents of Ruleville , Mississippi , to register , ca. 1963 Danny Lyon , Magnum Photos Frank Smith , Robert Moses , and Willie Peacock at SNCC office in Greenwood , Mississippi , the day ...
... Moses , who combined intellectual understanding with selfless commitment . Not much older than I , these two leaders had assumed important social roles and lived in ways that I found exciting and exemplary . Though I resisted the ...
... Moses, then a twenty-six-year-old high school teacher in New York, was impressed by the “sullen, angry, determined” looks on the faces of North Carolina student protesters in a newspaper photograph: “Before, the Negro in the South had ...
... Moses , then a twenty - six - year - old high school teacher in New York , was impressed by the " sullen , angry , determined " looks on the faces of North Carolina student protesters in a newspaper photograph : " Before , the Negro in ...
... Moses , a former graduate student at Harvard University . Moses , who went to Atlanta to work on an SCLC voter registration project , found that no one at the orga- nization had prepared for his arrival . He was therefore assigned the ...
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 |