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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... Nashville, Chattanooga, Richmond, Baltimore, Montgomery, and Lexington were among over thirty communities in seven states to experience sit-ins. The protests reached the remaining southern states by mid-April. By that time, according to ...
... Nashville student activist, Marion Barry, noted that for “the first time in history black students sit down at the conference table with officials and are heard.” Political scientist Michael Walzer was among the whites who noted the ...
... Nashville , Chattanooga , Richmond , Baltimore , Montgomery , and Lexington were among over thirty communities in seven states to experience sit - ins . The protests reached the remaining southern states by mid - April . By that time ...
... Nashville , explicitly connected the student movement with the struggle against communism and added that if blacks were given equal educational opportunities in the South , " maybe some day a Negro will invent one of our missiles . " 1 ...
... Nashville had not only engaged in such planning , but also had schooled themselves in the philosophical doc- trines of the Gandhian passive resistance movement in India . It was these Nashville activists , rather than the four ...
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 |