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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... report assuring listeners that there would be no protests by college students in that locality. Two days later, when black students demonstrating at a suburban shopping center near Raleigh were arrested for trespassing, other students ...
... report assuring listeners that there would be no protests by college students in that locality . Two days later , when black students demonstrating at a suburban shop- ping center near Raleigh were arrested for trespassing , other ...
... reports of the African independence struggle when attending an ecumenical religious conference held in Athens , Ohio , a few weeks be- fore the initial Greensboro sit - in . A scholar at the conference noted that " hundreds " of ...
... reports of the Montgomery bus boycott and its leader King , whom he saw as " a Moses , using organized religion and the emotionalism within the Negro church as an instrument , as a vehicle , toward freedom . " He began preaching in ...
... Report all serious incidents to your leader in a polite manner . Remember love and nonviolence . " When the Raleigh conference opened , King , then thirty - one years old , was the center of attention . Indeed , his presence probably ...
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 |