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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... importance . I share with them the wish to preserve SNCC from the fate of obscurity or of misunderstanding that often befalls the harbingers of change . I received many different kinds of assistance , but all aid was accompanied by the ...
... important social roles and lived in ways that I found exciting and exemplary . Though I resisted the inclination to join SNCC's staff , I soon became involved in " the movement . " Deciding to leave the relative racial isolation of New ...
... important step in the transformation of a lim- ited student movement to desegregate lunch counters into a broad and sus- tained movement to achieve major social reforms . Although many of the students at the founding conference ...
... importance . Nonetheless , the rhet- oric of nonviolent direct action and the moralistic orientation of the Nash- ville ... important , independent voice for the protest movement , the survival of the new group was by no means assured ...
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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 |