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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... leaders did not initiate the most significant local struggles ; instead , such struggles produced new indigenous leadership capable of sustaining them . By developing organizing techniques that made southern blacks more confident of ...
... leaders had assumed important social roles and lived in ways that I found exciting and exemplary . Though I resisted ... leaders such as Martin Luther King or Malcolm X , but as a mass movement that produced its own leaders and ideas ...
... leaders and existing organizations. As local white leaders gave in to the student demands, an increasingly.
... leaders to forgo temporarily " individual rights and financial interests " while city officials sought " a just and honorable resolution " of the controversy.2 The demonstrators , by this time organized as the Students ' Executive ...
... leaders . " 7 This interpretation was reinforced by an extensive survey of black students carried out in the spring of 1962. John Orbell found that protest participation was strongly influenced by situational factors , such as the ...
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 |