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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... going all the time , but you can't get there ' til the right vehicle comes along . " 16 After the Greensboro students had seized the initiative , other students would claim that they had been planning sit - ins or similar protests even ...
... going organizations , " but she thought " they had the right to direct their own affairs and even make their own mistakes . " She knew from experience " how people and their ideas can be captured by those who have programs of their own ...
... going " and to " branch out with full force into broader areas , especially ... into the political arena . " 17 At summer's end , the small SNCC staff could cite little evidence of their impact on the student protest movement . Edward ...
... going to do to correct the situation . " 18 The handling of a request by Nash , as head of the Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee , for a meeting with President Kennedy revealed the ambivalent attitude of administra- tion officials ...
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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 |