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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... activities shifted from desegregation to political rights , its philosophical commit- ment to nonviolent direct action gave way to a secular , humanistic radicalism influenced by Marx , Camus , Malcolm X , and most of all by the SNCC ...
... activities and a telephoned bomb threat , the store manager decided to close the store . The mayor of Greensboro then called upon black students and business leaders to forgo temporarily " individual rights and financial interests ...
... Activities ( HUAC ) about his experience in 1959 as a delegate to the Seventh World Youth Festival in Vienna , which he attended to give foreign youths " a clearer un- derstanding of the American way of doing things and show them that ...
... activities it was supposed to coordinate . Only as the spontane- ous enthusiasm of the early protests waned did the new organization begin to attract support . SNCC's founding conference , held on April 16-18 , 1960 , in Raleigh , North ...
... activities on Nashville , though many later joined SNCC's staff . Barry himself resigned the chair of SNCC in the fall to return to grad- uate work at the University of Tennessee . As the influence of the Lawson group waned , secular ...
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 |