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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... Black Power 215 15. Internal Conflicts 229 16. White Repression 244 17. Seeking New Allies 265 18. Decline of Black Radicalism 287 Epilogue 305 Notes 307 Index 347 ILLUSTRATIONS following Reginald Robinson , Bill Hansen , Charles Jones.
... power and black con- sciousness , by excluding white activists from SNCC , and by building black - controlled institutions . After his election as chairman ... black struggle . As one of many black people SNCC influenced , I INTRODUCTION 3.
... black people were supplanted or absorbed by a per- vasive mass culture . Because of the enormous power of white - controlled national institutions , blacks were under great pressure to seek to better their lives through assimilation and ...
... black voters , especially in the deep South , prevented blacks from acquiring the political power necessary to achieve civil rights goals . Nonetheless many student activists were reluc- tant to abandon the direct action tactics that ...
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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 |