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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... organization.1 In seeking to go beyond these works, I encountered formidable obstacles, because SNCC workers rarely possessed the bureaucratic habits on which historians depend. The focus of my concern was SNCC's intellectual ...
... organization to emerge from the black student sit-ins of 1960. The four students, like many other young activists of ... organizational structure and without a coherent set of ideas to guide their actions, the Greensboro students were ...
... organizations . As the thrust of SNCC's activities shifted from desegregation to political rights , its philosophical ... organization's new sepa- ratist orientation , but he and other workers were unable to formulate a set of ideas that ...
... organization itself . In examining these criticisms , I intend not to disparage SNCC but rather to show my deep respect for those who were willing to assume the risks of living experimentally . If SNCC staff members did not discover a ...
... organization to emerge from the black student sit - ins of 1960 . The four students , like many other young ... organizational structure and without a coherent set of ideas to guide their actions , the Greensboro stu- dents were ...
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 |