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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... movements — United States - History - 20th century . 4. United States Race relations . I. Title . E185.61.C27 1995 323.1'196073 - dc20 ISBN 0-674-44727-1 ( pbk . ) 94-48182 In Memory of My Brother Michael Windell and for Susan.
... United States and elsewhere , nonviolent direct action was a starting point for the emergence of a new political consciousness among oppressed people . For southern black students in the spring of 1960 , it offered an almost irresist ...
... United States and its ' people of plenty . ' " 8 The upsurge of black militancy during the mid - 1960s would undermine such assumptions . Moreover , the movement itself would become a source of new experiences and ideas that would alter ...
... United States . Although the lunch counter protests and the social struggles that followed would ultimately stimulate revolutionary ferment , initially most student protesters aspired to middle - class status and did not basically ...
... United States often re- proached Afro - American students for " not being as aggressive as their counterparts in Africa . " Students who later took part in the sit - in move- ment heard reports of the African independence struggle when ...
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 |