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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... later, when black students demonstrating at a suburban shopping center near Raleigh were arrested for trespassing, other students rushed to the scene to be arrested. In all, forty-one students were arrested and charged with trespassing ...
... Matthews , a black college graduate working in Winston - Salem , conducted that city's first sit - in on Monday , February 8. Later in the afternoon Matthews was joined by about twenty - five other blacks 10 COMING TOGETHER.
... later took part in the sit - in move- ment heard reports of the African independence struggle when attending an ecumenical religious conference held in Athens , Ohio , a few weeks be- fore the initial Greensboro sit - in . A scholar at ...
... later commented , was " the de- velopment of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership among other people . " 2 The conference called by Baker was the most successful of several gather- ings of ...
... later earned a bachelor's degree at Le Moyne College . He once created an up- roar by protesting an anti - black remark by a white Le Moyne trustee , and while working for a graduate degree in chemistry at Fisk , he risked losing his ...
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 |