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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... discussed and evidently thought a great deal as militant African nationalists ' stole the show ' with predictions of a ' new order . ' " According to a journalist who visited black campuses during the spring of 1960 , " even the most ...
... discuss the matter over the tel- ephone , and at a press conference he stated , with reference to the freedom riders that the state could not " guarantee the safety of fools . " Only after Robert Kennedy's special assistant , John ...
... discuss fund - raising for voter registration programs with Harry Belafonte , a personal friend of the Kennedys who was earlier involved in the discussions with Justice Department officials regarding voter registration . One of the ...
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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 |