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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... participants. SNCC's rapid rise and fall, its internal debates over tactics, strategy, and longterm goals, mirrored in microcosm the transformation of African-American politics during the 1960s. Founded by the southern black college ...
... participants.3 Although the 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 ...
... participants . SNCC's rapid rise and fall , its internal debates over tactics , strategy , and long - term goals , mirrored in microcosm the transformation of African - American politics during the 1960s . Founded by the southern black ...
... participate in the Free Speech Movement at Berke- ley , the Vietnam War protests , and the women's liberation movement , but SNCC workers themselves had become more uncertain about the values guiding their work . Over the next two years ...
... participation in protests was welcomed, he “never heard a Negro ask, or even hint, that whites should join their picket lines. It will be better for them, and for us, I was told, if they came unasked.” Even outside the South, blacks ...
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 |