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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... initial spark of the movement was a simple, impulsive act of defiance, one that required no special skills or resources. Planned the previous night, the “sit-in”—as it would be called—was not the product of radical intellectual ferment ...
... initial Greensboro sit-in had been peaceful and polite, the student protests gradually became more assertive, even boisterous. As demonstrations attracted increasing crowds of participants and onlookers, they came to be perceived as ...
... initial spark of the movement was a simple , impulsive act of defiance , one that required no special skills or resources . Planned the previous night , the " sit - in " —as it would be called — was not the product of radical ...
... initial Greensboro sit - in had been peaceful and polite , the student protests gradually became more assertive , even boisterous . As dem- onstrations attracted increasing crowds of participants and onlookers , they came to be ...
... initial Greensboro sit - in . A scholar at the conference noted that " hundreds " of southern black students " listened , discussed and evidently thought a great deal as militant African nationalists ' stole the show ' with predictions ...
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 |