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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... began intensive research in the spring of 1972 , the work has un- dergone many transformations . Helpful suggestions regarding the original dissertation , titled " Toward Freedom and Community : The Evolution of Ideas in the Student ...
... began to question not only the cautiousness of liberals but also the conventional strategies of change in American society . They observed that existing leaders did not initiate the most significant local struggles ; instead , such ...
... began after the defeat of an attempt by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party ( MFDP ) to unseat the regular all - white delegation to the Democratic National Convention in August 1964. SNCC had by this time become a training ground ...
... began a career as an engineer with the Celanese Corporation. David Richmond was briefly involved in voter registration work in Mississippi but returned to Greensboro, where he worked with local anti-poverty programs and figured in ...
... began to demand service at local restaurants . The African independence movement , led by college - trained activists , also affected black youths . A black sociologist commented in 1960 that African students attending black colleges in ...
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 |