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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... expressed thoughts that were latent in my own mind . I admired the humanity of Bob Moses , who combined intellectual understanding with selfless commitment . Not much older than I , these two leaders had assumed important social roles ...
... expressed values of the American political system, though many also began to identify with the black student movement and its own emerging values. Diane Nash remarked that the black student became a member of “a group of people suddenly ...
... expressed their long - suppressed anger but also apparently did not provoke severe re- taliation from whites . " Now it came to me all of a sudden , " McCain re- membered thinking , " Maybe they can't do anything to us . Maybe we can ...
... racial assimilation and as an expression of the desire for further assimila- tion . Ruth Searles and J. Allen Williams made the point that black stu- dents had selected nonviolent protest " as an acceptable means 12 COMING TOGETHER.
... expressed values of the American political system , though many also began to identify with the black student movement and its own emerging values . Diane Nash remarked that the black student became a member of " a group of people ...
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 |