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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... they acquired a distinctively radical perspective shaped by their changing experiences and aspirations. At first this radicalism took the form of an insistence that the federal government and its liberal leaders use Introduction.
... federal government and its liberal leaders use their power to protect and assist SNCC workers and the southern blacks with whom they worked . By the mid - 1960s , however , SNCC workers began to question not only the cautiousness of ...
... federal intervention , and whether SNCC could continue to expand the black struggle while remaining tied to the rhetoric of interracialism and nonviolent direct action . They also questioned whether their remaining goals could best be ...
... to dominant political values . Thus , shortly before launching a protest , At- lanta University students cited " the over - riding supremacy of the Federal Law " and asserted their willingness " to use every SIT - INS 13.
... federal troops in such cases as the Little Rock crisis of 1957. The as- cendancy of the moderates was also a result of the persecution during the 1950s of leftist black leaders such as W. E. B. DuBois , Paul Robeson , and Benjamin Davis ...
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 |