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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... 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 always looked on the defensive, cringing. This time they were ...
... 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 always looked on the defensive , cringing . This time ...
... York and during the Depression worked as a community organizer while taking graduate courses at the New School for Social Research . During the 1940s she became a field secre- tary for the NAACP in New York . In January 1958 she made ...
... York State assemblyman , went to Mont- gomery to join the protests . While the Jackson protests became a rallying point for activists from every section of the nation , Justice Department of- ficials began behind - the scenes efforts to ...
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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 |