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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... become full-time SNCC staff members. With few resources other than their commitment, creativity, and youthful energy, these SNCC workers led a frontal attack on the southern strongholds of racism. While mobilizing black communities ...
... become fully aware of the significance of what they had done. In the beginning, they only spoke of a modest desire: to drink a cup of coffee, sitting down. The initial sit-in was a tentative challenge to Jim Crow. Joseph McNeil and ...
... become full - time SNCC staff members . With few resources other than their commitment , creativity , and youth- ful energy , these SNCC workers led a frontal attack on the southern strongholds of racism . While mobilizing black ...
... become a training ground for activists who would participate in the Free Speech Movement at Berke- ley , the Vietnam War protests , and the women's liberation movement , but SNCC workers themselves had become more uncertain about the ...
... becoming increasingly aware of the difficulties it faced as demands for civil rights gave way to demands for economic and political power . Like many other self - proclaimed militants , I watched without full comprehension the burning ...
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 |