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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... Party headquarters , Lowndes County , Alabama , 1966 Doug Harris Election night , Lowndes County , Alabama , 1966 Doug Harris H. Rap Brown speaking in Cambridge , Maryland , shortly before being shot by police , 1967 UPI / Bettmann Bob ...
... party ( MFDP ) to unseat the regular all - white delegation to the Democratic National Convention in August 1964. SNCC had by this time become a training ground for activists who would participate in the Free Speech Movement at Berke ...
... party , and their statements revealed the increasing concern of black stu- dent leaders with issues beyond desegregation . At the Democratic conven- tion , for example , SNCC representatives proposed that delegates and can- didates ...
... party and its youth wing , the Young People's So- cialist League , the newly formed SDS , the Southern Conference Educa- tional Fund ( SCEF ) , and the Highlander Folk School , a training school for labor organizers . Although Martin ...
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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 |